The Eleatics, particularly Parmenides, appear to have been the first to do so. |
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The Aristotelian characterization of philosophy cannot in any case be transferred back to the thinking of Heraclitus and Parmenides. |
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Zeno was a pupil and friend of the philosopher Parmenides and studied with him in Elea. |
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Zeno devoted all his energies to explain and develop the philosophical system of Parmenides. |
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Protagoras, Parmenides, Democritus and Socrates looked inward to the human mind and there discovered logos, Human Reason. |
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What Parmenides did was to apply logic to the arguments of the Pythagoreans, thus setting the groundwork of formal logic. |
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The original atomist theory was a response to the Eleatic school of Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus of Samos. |
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Parmenides claimed that we cannot conceptualize nothing, the empty set. |
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There is some debate about who was the first person to assert that the Earth is spherical in shape, with the credit going either to Parmenides or Pythagoras. |
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