Zeno of Elea#Zeno
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#Zeno
Zeno of Elea · c. 490–430 BCE
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“Zeno never argued for anything. He borrowed his opponents' beliefs, ran them to their logical conclusions, and let them explode — a weapon called reductio ad absurdum that philosophy has carried ever since.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“If you take the everyday world of motion and many things seriously, you can be led step by logical step into pure absurdity — so maybe the everyday world is not what it seems.”
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