🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

エレア派の

Pronunciation / Transliteration: erea-ha no

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Eleatic/ˌɛliˈætɪk/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"エレア派の哲学は存在の不変性を主張した。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to the ancient Greek philosophical school of Elea, founded by Parmenides, which argued that change is an illusion and reality is a motionless, single unchanging whole.

    "The professor delivered a lecture on the Eleatic doctrine of absolute changelessness."
As noun
  1. 1

    A philosopher belonging to the Eleatic school, such as Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, or Melissus of Samos.

    "Zeno is perhaps the most famous Eleatic known for his paradoxical arguments against motion."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek city of Elea (Velia) in southern Italy, home to the pre-Socratic philosophers Parmenides and Zeno. The term entered modern European academic and philosophical vocabulary in the 19th century to describe the metaphysical doctrines originating from this school.

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