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Eleatic, a. and n.|ɛliːˈætɪk|
[f. L. Eleātic-us, from Elea, name of an ancient Greek city in S.W. Italy: cf. -atic.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Elea or its inhabitants; spec. used of the philosophy of Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno, who lived or were born there.
B. n. An Eleatic philosopher.
1695Ld. Preston Boeth. i. 5 Brought up in Eleatique & Academique Studies. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 342 Parmenides must be regarded as an Eleatic [dialogue]. 1849Grote Greece (1862) VI. lxvii. 44 The dialectical movement emanated..from the Eleatic school. 1870Bowen Logic ix. 312 The famous argument, called the Achilles, proposed by Zeno the Eleatic.
Hence Eleˈaticism, the doctrine or system of the Eleatics.
1867J. H. Stirling tr. Schwegler's Hist. Philos. (ed. 8) 15 Eleaticism is consequently monism, so far as it endeavours to reduce the manifold of existence to a single ultimate principle. |