Zeno of Elea

Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher known for his paradoxes, which challenge our understanding of motion and change. His most famous paradoxes, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, argue that motion is an illusion because to reach a goal, one must first reach halfway, then halfway to that point, and so on, creating infinite divisions. These ideas provoke deep questions in metaphysics about the nature of space, time, and infinity, challenging the notions of continuity and how we perceive reality. Zeno's work laid important groundwork for later philosophical and mathematical concepts.