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HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Zeno's Paradox of the Arrow

Zeno's paradox relies on this fact that the whole distance is equal to the sum of the infinite series. Aristotle offers what i think is a more relevant response to zeno. He says that one can divide the time needed to move from a to b, right along with the distance and so on. This brings us to another brilliant argument of zeno's, the paradox of the arrow. Here we consider an arrow in mid flight, on its way from archer target. Now consider how things are with this arrow at any one moment during the flight. Imagine it captured by a stop motion camera. In this frieze frame, moment, it isn't moving at all, because at

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