This is therefore not 3RR . Heraclius's accusations that I have violated 3RR before are also false, as the record demonstrates that I have never been blocked for 3RR violation .-- Zeno of Elea 05 : 57, 8 August 2005 ( UTC)
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Unit-point atomism was invoked in order to make sense of a statement ascribed to Zeno of Elea in Parmenides " : " these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun of him . ..
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The conceptual origins of the concept of the infinitesimal 1 / " can be traced as far back as the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, whose Zeno's dichotomy paradox was the first mathematical concept to consider the relationship between a finite interval and an interval approaching that of an infinitesimal-sized interval.
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"' Nearchus "'(, "'Nearchos "') was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Elea in Magna Graecia who ruled in the 5th century BC . He is only known from an anecdote in connection with the philosopher Zeno of Elea, whom Nearchus put to the torture for having conspired against his life.
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He loves a striking story and takes his anecdotal leisure, pausing to tell us how Zeno of Elea ( he of the paradox ), while being tortured to reveal his co-conspirators in a plot against the tyrant of his homeland, clamped his teeth on the ear of his interviewer until only death caused him to relax his bite.
