Crossword clues for eleatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eleatic \E`le*at"ic\, a. [L. eleaticus, from Elea (or Velia) in Italy.] Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason. -- n. A philosopher of the Eleatic school.
Usage examples of "eleatic".
The Eleatic philosophers treated conceptions not only as entities, but as the only entities, alone possessing the stability and certainty and reality vainly sought among phenomena.
The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.
Hartstein popped into the Eleatic academy, Zeno was going over the tortoise paradox for the benefit of the young men in his class.
Its real basis is in the solidarity of the race, which has its basis in the unity of God, not the dead or abstract unity asserted by the old Eleatics, the Neo-Platonists, or the modern Unitarians, but the living unity consisting in the threefold relation in the Divine Essence, of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as asserted by Christian revelation, and believed, more or less intelligently, by all Christendom.
The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.