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PRONUNCIATION OF ELEATIC

Eleatic  [ˌɛlɪˈætɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELEATIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eleatic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELEATIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Eleatics

The Eleatics refers to the pre-Socratic school of philosophy founded by Parmenides in the early fifth century BC in the ancient town of Elea. Other members of the school included Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos. Xenophanes is sometimes included in the list, though there is some dispute over this. Elea, whose modern-day appellation is Velia, was a Greek colony located in present-day Campania in southern Italy.

Definition of Eleatic in the English dictionary

The definition of Eleatic in the dictionary is denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory. Other definition of Eleatic is a follower of this school.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELEATIC


Adriatic
ˌeɪdrɪˈætɪk
Asiatic
ˌeɪʃɪˈætɪk
attic
ˈætɪk
automatic
ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk
aviatic
ˌeɪvɪˈætɪk
caryatic
ˌkærɪˈætɪk
choreatic
ˌkɔːrɪˈætɪk
creatic
kriːˈætɪk
cuneatic
ˌkjuːnɪˈætɪk
fluviatic
ˌfluːvɪˈætɪk
Hanseatic
ˌhænsɪˈætɪk
ischiatic
ˌɪskɪˈætɪk
mydriactic
ˌmɪdrɪˈætɪk
mydriatic
ˌmɪdrɪˈætɪk
pancreatic
ˌpæŋkrɪˈætɪk
phreatic
frɪˈætɪk
psoriatic
ˌsɔːrɪˈætɪk
sciatic
saɪˈætɪk
static
ˈstætɪk
triatic
traɪˈætɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELEATIC

ELDO
Eldon
eldorado
ELDR
eldress
eldrich
eldritch
Elea
Eleanor Cross
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Castile
Eleaticism

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELEATIC

acrobatic
aquatic
aromatic
charismatic
Christian Democratic
cinematic
climatic
diplomatic
dramatic
fanatic
hydrostatic
lunatic
pneumatic
pragmatic
problematic
schematic
simatic
systematic
thematic
traumatic

Synonyms and antonyms of Eleatic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Eleatic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELEATIC

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The translations of Eleatic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Eleatic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

爱利亚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eleática
570 millions of speakers

English

Eleatic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Eleatic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Eleatic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

элеатов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

eleático
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Eleatic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Eleatic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Eleatic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eleatische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Eleatic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Eleatic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eleatic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Eleatic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Eleatic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एलेयटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Elea
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eleatica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Eleatic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

елеатов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Eleatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Eleatic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Eleatic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eleatiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Eleatic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Eleatic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEATIC»

The term «Eleatic» is used very little and occupies the 151.975 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEATIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Eleatic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELEATIC»

Discover the use of Eleatic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Eleatic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plato's Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations
Chapter. 12. WHAT. IS. ELEATIC. ABOUT. THE. ELEATIC. STRANGER? Rose. Cherubin. In Plato's Sophist the mathematician Theodorus introduces to Socrates a man Theodorus says is a philosopher from Elea and a companion of the ...
Gerald Alan Press, 1993
2
The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later ...
In this book, Patricia Curd argues that Parmenides sought to reform rather than to reject scientific inquiry and provides a more coherent account of his influence on the philosophers who came after him.
Patricia Curd, 1998
3
History of Philosophy
PaRMsNInEs ANn THE Et.EATIc Sol-1001. There is another philosophic budding in Magna Graecia besides Pythagoreanism: the Eleatic school. Parmenides is the major figure in this group, and Zeno and Melissus are his principal followers.
Julian Marias, 2012
4
The Cratylus: Plato's Critique of Naming
There is an Eleatic argument that Melissus deployed which shows a similar use of u-eTonriTrreiv, an argument designed to show that common sense beliefs in the veridical nature of the senses and the consequent belief in a plurality of things ...
Timothy M. S. Baxter, 1992
5
Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific ...
They are to be known, if at all, by looking for entities which possess Eleatic properties and which can in principle generate the phenomena of experience. No longer is what we see what we get. There is now an epistemological gap between ...
Daniel W. Graham, 2009
6
Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
He is introduced as a member of the Eleatic school, but he finds it necessary to break with his philosophical “father” in order to explain how it is possible for something like a sophist to exist. Like Socrates, the Eleatic suggests that being must be ...
Catherine H. Zuckert, 2009
7
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
ATOMISM'S. ELEATIC. ROOTS ... as it does to sum up how two Eleatic stimuli combined to bring fifth-century bce atomism into being. First, Parmenides in his poem had discounted not-being as unthinkable, and had further been understood as ...
Patricia Curd, Daniel W. Graham, 2008
8
Polarity and Analogy
The first part of his treatise deals with problems which had been raised by the Eleatics, and it carries the discussion of those problems a step further in that it shows how Eleatic arguments could be used against Eleatic theses, just as much as ...
Associated University Presses, G.E.R. Lloyd, 1987
9
Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity
11 The Eleatic Stranger His Master's Voice? Francisco J. Gonzalez Interpreters of the Sophist and the Statesman almost universally assume that the Eleatic Stranger speaks for Plato.1 This is surprising, given how little speaks in favor of this ...
Gerald Alan Press, 2000
10
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought
17 Rather than direct its motion himself, he gave the cosmos an order of its own ( thus making it truly a “cosmos”), deathless and ageless.18 The Eleatic associates the first period, or the era when the god directly guided the motion of the ...
Stephen Salkever, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELEATIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Eleatic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Thinking Straight About Curved Space
The Eleatic philosopher argued that since space was Nothing, it could not divide Being into beings: to be separated by Nothing was not to be separated at all, ... «Philosophy Now, May 15»
2
Free Press Readers
Tallman's list of polarities includes such archaic notions as the Eleatic idea that all things are made of four elements, earth, air, fire and water. «London Free Press, Nov 14»
3
Philosophy's Roots and Branches
What was unusual about the Eleatic school is that it ignored the evidence. Instead, they sought to understand the universe by starting with what one can know ... «Philosophy Now, Sep 14»
4
University Challenge: Are these the 20 toughest questions Jeremy …
Chief of the Eleatic school of philosophy, what Greek philosopher demonstrated that the senses could not be trusted by constructing four ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
5
Will Self: How to let yourself become part of LA's autopia
This Eleatic paradox lies at the very core of LA's polymorphously perverse being: the light railway line halving the distance to Santa Monica and ... «New Statesman, Nov 13»
6
What is Mathematics?
The Eleatic School, which included Zeno of Elea, famous for his four paradoxes. The Sophist School, which is credited for offering higher ... «LiveScience.com, Aug 13»
7
A Literary Hedonist In The Classroom: On Professor Borges
He seems to have read everything, from the Eleatic aporiae and the Gnostic heresiarchs, to Chesterton's endless volumes. His stories are often ... «The Millions, Aug 13»
8
Playing “Hopscotch” with Julio Cortázar
The pleasures of this paragraph are, in a sense, the flip side of the Eleatic — they find truth in the material, sensory passage of time, even as the ... «Salon, Jun 13»
9
Ancient Philosophers: The Eliatic School, Parminedes
The most noted thinker of the Eleatic School is Parmenides, who was born at Elea about 540 B.C. He was called “the Great” by Plato. He was ... «The Moral Liberal, Nov 12»
10
Ancient Philosophers: The Ionians, Anaximenes
... and one of them was to reach Elea, a city of southern Italy, and there found the school which was to be called Eleatic, after the city of its origin ... «The Moral Liberal, Oct 12»

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