Talk:Zeno of Elea

message: I removed the two paradoxes from Aristotle as they are contained in the more appropriate Zeno's paradoxes.  Uriah923 07:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paradoxes given by Aristotle 

message: Leaving aside the question of "Why would they not have been?" is not this sufficient indication that indeed they were: "Plato says that Zeno was "tall and fair to look upon" and was "in the days of his youth … reported to have been beloved by Parmenides". (Parmenides 127)" Haiduc 23:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pederasts? 

message: It is said that Pythagoras recommended the building of shrines to the Muses. Could Zeno have played the comic relief to Parmenides?  He seems to have been a bit of a trickster who, like Hermes who gave Apollo a bad time of it, wreaked havoc on Parmenides' arguments. In Plato's Parmenides the Athenians give the impression that Parmenides was the better of the two. When asked for a copy of one of his works Zeno claims that it was a juvinile effort and that it was lost. He is supposed to have written a work containing forty paradoxes. His argument that points do not exist is interesting.  Compare the present with eternity.  --Jbergquist 22:52, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muse? 

message: The quote by Bertrand Russel quote seems out of place in the introduction.
Would anyone have any problem if I just put some of its substance into the intro.
(Lucas(CA) 23:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Betrand Russel Quote

message: The article alludes to Aristotle being awear of Zeno and his work, even though the current birth/death dates would make this pretty much impossible.
The article states that he lived between 490 BC – ca. 430 BC, and i do recognise that the exact year is unknown, but (according to the wiki page on him)Aristotle lived from 384 BC to 322 BC, so for them to know each other they would have had time time travel.
Can this please be fixed up, somehow...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.6.43.107 (talk) 06:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Where does the article say that Aristotle knew Zeno? Zeno died roughly 50 years before Aristotle was born. Nevertheless Aristotle knew of Zeno and his work. Paul August ☎ 06:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of dates 

message: The callout rquote from Laërtius does not expand its "box" properly when the reader increases his type size (zooms in), e.g., with ctrl+plus.  If the reader has zoomed in even once, the ends of the nobreak lines are truncated in a way that makes the quote unintelligible.  Either you have to do ctrl+zero and move closer to the screen and squint, or you can go to edit mode and try to read it, ignoring all the mark up characters, which are many.  I do not know how to fix this.   Solo Owl   20:28, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The quote from Laërtius 

message: Re. "Zeno's philosophy is still debated in the present day, and no solution to his paradoxes has been agreed upon by philosophers":  Why don't they just integrate?  This is high-school math. Philgoetz (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, explain yourself. What is your point? I suppose you mean to say that a philosophcal paradox of this sort can have no clear solution, as is the case with mathematical problems (perhaps requiring integration). Well, this point is valid as far as epistemology is concerned, but it all comes down to how you interpret the term "solution". It doesn't have to be a numerical solution; could it not be taken to mean the "explanation"? L'OrfeoSon io 09:21, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No solution has been agreed upon?  Seriously?