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Zeno's Paradoxes

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles in a tortoise is basically a variation of the decotomi paradox that we have just heard from james. The show em what zeno says is happening that, right? Am? So it seems that achilles, even though he's the fastest run in the ancient world, will never be able to overtake this slow right? So that'se, a paradox dide. But the argument goes on. That interesting thing isn't it great? As aristotle ist, he doesn't kill it. I mean, it continues, it emerges, it re emerges. And barbarasat probably the best known paradox is achilles and the tortoise. Can

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