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A paper responding to one of this philosopher’s ideas imagines a man writing out how A and B implies Z in a notebook he kept in his helmet. One thinker stated that inaudible sounds can add to audible ones when refuting this philosopher’s idea regarding a dropped grain of millet. An infinite regress results when discussing one of this philosopher’s ideas in a paper by Lewis Carroll. (15[1])Some of this philosopher’s ideas are preserved (15[1])in Book VI and VII of Aristotle’s (*) Physics. In order to support the monism of his teacher Parmenides, this philosopher devised arguments against the possibility of motion. (10[3])Some of those arguments (10[2])by this philosopher (-5[1])use an arrow and a race between Achilles and a tortoise. For 10 points, name this Greek philosopher (10[1])from Elea who devised several paradoxes. ■END■

ANSWER: Zeno of Elea (The Lewis Carroll paper is “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles.”)
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