eleatic means of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
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ELEATIC — [Adjective] Of or relating to the pre-Socratic school of philosophy founded in Elea, whose doctrines posit a singular, unchanging reality apprehended solely by reason. From Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek Ἐλεατικός (Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, "Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy"). Unlike "empiricist," which trusts the clamor of the senses, or "pluralist," which finds truth in multiplicity, the Eleatic vision is a fortress of austere logic defending a monolithic "One." It is the cool marble of Zeno's paradoxes, the severe geometry of a perfect sphere described by thought alone, and the absolute stillness at the heart of a whirling top—a majestic, lonely monument to the mind's triumph over the terrifying evidence of life itself.
adj
- Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
noun
- A philosopher of the Eleatic school.