Definitions for Eleatic

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Eleatic El·e·at·ic

Spelling: [el-ee-at-ik]

IPA: /ˌɛl iˈæt ɪk/

Eleatic is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in Eleatic (aceeilt).

Definitions for Eleatic

noun

1. a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

adjective

1. of or relating to Elea.
2. noting or pertaining to a school of philosophy, founded by Parmenides, that investigated the phenomenal world, especially with reference to the phenomena of change.

Origin of Eleatic

1685-95; Latin Eleāticus Greek Eleātikós. See Elea, -tic

Examples for Eleatic

In Parmenides the Eleatic this motive is most strikingly exhibited.

The Eleatic philosopher would have replied that Being is alone true.

These notices of the Eleatic sage, we feel, are not in any sense accidental.

Such, indeed, was the sentence passed by the philosophers of the Eleatic school.

Here a step is made beyond the limits of the Eleatic philosophy.

The Eleatic notion that being and thought were the same was revived in a new form by Descartes.

The effect of the paradoxes of Zeno extended far beyond the Eleatic circle.

Or that he has any Eleatic speculation to oppose to the Heracleiteanism of Cratylus.

Under 'Not-being' the Eleatic had included all the realities of the sensible world.

The conclusion at which we must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the Eleatic philosophy.