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Zeno said that there were four stages in the process leading to true knowledge, which he illustrated with the example of the flat, extended hand, and the gradual closing of the fist: Zeno stretched out his fingers, and showed the palm of his hand, – "Perception," – he said, – "is a thing like this."–
Zeno was a native of the Greek town of Kaunos in Caria in southwestern Asia Minor. He moved to the town of Philadelphia in Egypt, a busy market town that had been founded on the edge of the Faiyum by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in honour of his sister Arsinoe II. From the 3rd century BC until the 5th century CE, Philadelphia was a thriving ...
The Henotikon (/ h ə ˈ n ɒ t ɪ k ə n / or / h ə ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ˌ k ɒ n / in English; Greek ἑνωτικόν henōtikón "act of union") was a christological document issued by Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482, in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of the Council of Chalcedon and the council's opponents (Non-Chalcedonian Christians).
Zeno of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ζήνων; born not later than 220 BC) was an ancient Greek politician and historian (FGrH 523). [1] Zeno mainly wrote about the history of Rhodes, and was a contemporary of Polybius. [2] Polybius made extensive use of Zeno's historical work, especially on the dealings Rhodes had with Lycia and ancient Rome. [3]
Zeno's arguments may then be early examples of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum, also known as proof by contradiction. Thus Plato has Zeno say the purpose of the paradoxes "is to show that their hypothesis that existences are many, if properly followed up, leads to still more absurd results than the hypothesis that they are one."
Zeno is the protagonist of a theatrical drama in Latin, called Zeno, composed c. 1641 by the Jesuit playwright Joseph Simons and performed in 1643 in Rome at the Jesuit English College. [57] An anonymous Greek drama is modelled on this Latin Zeno, belonging to the so-called Cretan Theatre.
Flavius Zeno (Greek: Ζήνων; floruit 447–451) was an influential general and politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, of Isaurian origin, who served as magister militum per Orientem, and became consul and patricius.
Zeno's greatest influence was within the thought of the Eleatic school, as his arguments built on the ideas of Parmenides, [22] though his paradoxes were also of interest to Ancient Greek mathematicians. [30] Zeno is regarded as the first philosopher who dealt with attestable accounts of mathematical infinity. [31]