Zeno of Elea was born in Elea, Italy, in 490 B.C. He died there in 430 B.C., in an
attempt to oust the city's tyrant. He was a noted pupil of Parmenides, from whom he
learned most of his doctrines and political ideas. He believed that what exists is one,
permanent, and unchanging. Zeno argued against multiplicity and motion. He did so by
showing the contradictions that result from assuming that they were real. His argument
against multiplicity stated that if the many exists, it must be both infinitely large and
infinitely small, and it must be both limited and unlimited in number.…
