Zeno-of-elea
c490–c430 b.c, greek philosopher.
noun
?490–?430 bc, greek eleatic philosopher; disciple of parmenides. he defended the belief that motion and change are illusions in a series of paradoxical arguments, of which the best known is that of achilles and the tortoise
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