Eleatic

[ el-ee-at-ik ]

/ ˌɛl iˈæt ɪk /

adjective

of or relating to Elea.

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

a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Origin of Eleatic

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

OTHER WORDS FROM Eleatic

El·e·at·i·cism, noun

Example sentences from the Web for eleatic

This coincides with that which the Eleatic stranger seeks to prove in the Sophistes, against Parmenides.

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume III (of 4) |George Grote
He was the founder of the Eleatic school and probably flourished about 500 b.c.

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura |Lucius Apuleius
But this is one nurtured in the Eleatic and Academic philosophies.

The Consolation of Philosophy |Boethius
Many interpreters have regarded the Parmenides as a 'reductio ad absurdum' of the Eleatic philosophy.

Parmenides |Plato

His system was a mixture of the Eleatic and Socratic, the ethical preponderating in his doctrine.

History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) |John William Draper

British Dictionary definitions for eleatic

Eleatic

/ (ˌɛlɪˈætɪk) /

adjective

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

a follower of this school

Derived forms of Eleatic

Eleaticism (ˌɛlɪˈætɪˌsɪzəm), noun

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adjective

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Derived forms of Eleatic