Zeno's Paradoxes
In Our Time: Philosophy
Aristotle's Distinction Between Potential and Actual Infinity
Aristotle rose up against these paradoxes again and again, an it becomes like a sort of heavyway championship. At one stage, zeno says, there's an aristotle wasin wif. Well, on this one, he thinks a as we've just it, it's aristotle's distinction between potential and actual infinity. He thinks it's misdescribing the job to say that you have to complete an actual series of infinite journeys. Potentially, if you wanted you could. You could think of your journey as including however many sub journeys as you like. But you don't actually have to do all of those in order to cross the room.
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