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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]
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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'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.
Zeno of Verona (Venetian: Xenòn de Verona or Xen de Verona; Italian: Zenone da Verona; about 300 – 371 or 380) was an Afro-Italian Christian figure believed to have either served as Bishop of Verona or died as a martyr.
Zeno was a pupil of Chrysippus, [1] and when Chrysippus died c. 206 BC, he succeeded him to become the fourth scholarch of the Stoic school in Athens. [2]According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote very few books, but left a great number of disciples. [1]
Zeno of Sidon (Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Σιδώνιος; c. 150 – c. 75 BC [1]) was a Greek Epicurean philosopher [2] from the Seleucid city of Sidon. His writings have not survived, but there are some epitomes of his lectures preserved among the writings of his pupil Philodemus .