The most connected people in the graph were ancient Greek thinkers, with Thales, Pythagoras and Zeno of Elea occupying the top three spots.
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The title " Achilles and the Tortoise " refers to the motion paradox by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, Achilles and the Tortoise.
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To divide time meant to destroy it, as Zeno of Elea demonstrated in the very same chase after answers to the unresolved questions.
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In support of this, Parmenides'pupil Zeno of Elea attempted to prove that the concept of motion was absurd and as such motion did not exist.
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The philosophy of motion was of central concern to Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, particularly the pre-Socratic philosophers such as Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Heraclitus and Democritus.
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Brought into light by Zeno of Elea, who questioned the conception that quantities are discrete and composed of a finite number of units of a given size.
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Zeno of Elea, a pupil of Parmenides, had the idea of a standard argument pattern found in the method of proof known as " reductio ad absurdum ".
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The city was known for being the home of the philosophers Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, as well as the Eleatic school of which they were a part.
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The idea of Zeno machines was first discussed by Hermann Weyl in 1927; the name refers to Zeno's paradoxes, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea.
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Aristotle said that it was the pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea who invented dialectic, of which the dialogues of Plato are the examples of the Socratic dialectical method.
