Zeno of Elea

METAPHYSICS: "Dichotomy of Bisection"

• •Logically argues to the ad infinitum as regards extended reality
• •Existing things: are quantitative and subject to mathematical extension
• •Things are divisible without limit, therefore one can never arrive at a unit which is indivisible. Thus there is no MANY because many is a number of units, if there is no UNIT. No plurality.
• •No motion - In the place where a thing is - it is at rest. And where it is not, it cannot BE moving.

Fragment 4: "That which is moving neither in the place in which it is nor a place in which it is not."

EPISTEMOLOGY: "Reasoning"

• •Follows Parmenides in adhereing to reason over perception
• •Argues from adversaries (unlike Parmenides) to contradictory conclusions, thus proving the opposite premiss.