zenonichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zenonic_adj1%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZenonic, adj.¹
Revised 2018

Zenonicadjective1

  1. 1779–
    Of or relating to Zeno of Elea (early 5th cent. b.c.), or his philosophical ideas, esp. his paradoxes. Cf. Zenonian adj.3
    1. 1779
      The Zenonic points are merely simple and unextended.
      J. Berington, Immaterialism Delineated 48
    2. 1888
      Heraclitus's system was the polar antithesis to this Zenonic position.
      Academy 21 April 278/1
    3. 1904
      The Zenonic puzzles touching the infinite divisibility of space would disappear like magic.
      G. S. Fullerton, System of Metaphysics xxxvii. 439
    4. 2015
      The traditional Zenonic paradoxes of the mapping of discrete quantities onto a continuum.
      T. Tho in J. Vernon & A. Calcagno, Badiou & Hegel ii. 43

Originally published as part of the entry for Zenonian, adj.¹ & n.¹

Zenonic, adj.¹ was revised in June 2018.

Zenonic, adj.¹ was last modified in July 2023.