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Zeno of Elea
Born: 495 B.C. Died: 430 B.C.
Zeno of Elea was a Presocratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Called by Aristotle the inventor of the dialectic, he is best known for his paradoxes, which are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called Reductio ad absurdum (aka, proof by contradiction). These mostly focus on the alleged impossibility of motion, but some argue against the possibility of place itself. Still others argue against the possibility of a multiplicity of things, and against the possibility of sound. (Source) |
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