Eleatic

[ el-ee-at-ik ]

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adjective

of or relating to Elea.
noting or pertaining to a school of philosophy, founded by Parmenides, that investigated the phenomenal world, especially with reference to the phenomena of change.

noun

a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Eleatic

/ ˌɛlɪˈætɪk; ˌɛlɪˈætɪˌsɪzəm /

adjective

denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory

noun

a follower of this school

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Derived Forms

Eleaticism, noun

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Other Word Forms

��e·��i·�� noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Eleatic¹

1685–95; < Latin ��پ��ܲ� < Greek ��پ��ó��. See Elea, -tic

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He was a member of the Eleatic school of thought, whose founder, Parmenides, held that the underlying nature of the universe was changeless and immobile.

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He, with Parmenides and Zeno, are the chief representatives of the Eleatic school, so named from the city in southwestern Italy where a Greek colony had settled.

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This was the belief of the Brahmins, and was no doubt transmitted to the Academic and Eleatic schools of Greece by Pythagoras.

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This “All,” which Krishna calls himself, is not, any more than the Eleatic One, and the Spinozan Substance, the Every-thing.

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Eleatic, el-e-at′ik, adj. noting a school of philosophers, specially connected with Elea, a Greek city of Lower Italy, and including Zenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno.—n. one belonging to this school.

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