Eleatic

[ el-ee-at-ik ]

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.

noun

1. a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Eleatic

/ ˌɛlɪˈætɪk; ˌɛlɪˈætɪˌsɪzəm /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory

noun

1. a follower of this school

Derived Forms

• Eleaticism, noun

Other Words From

• Ele·ati·cism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Eleatic¹

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

Example Sentences

He was a member of the Eleatic school of thought, whose founder, Parmenides, held that the underlying nature of the universe was changeless and immobile.

From Literature

He, with Parmenides and Zeno, are the chief representatives of the Eleatic school, so named from the city in southwestern Italy where a Greek colony had settled.

From Project Gutenberg

This was the belief of the Brahmins, and was no doubt transmitted to the Academic and Eleatic schools of Greece by Pythagoras.

From Project Gutenberg

This “All,” which Krishna calls himself, is not, any more than the Eleatic One, and the Spinozan Substance, the Every-thing.

From Project Gutenberg

Eleatic, el-e-at′ik, adj. noting a school of philosophers, specially connected with Elea, a Greek city of Lower Italy, and including Zenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno.—n. one belonging to this school.

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