
HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Zeno's Dicodome Paradox
Zeno argued that motion and change are impossible because they would involve non being in some way. He produced a whole series of paradoxical arguments, some of which were apparently paired together. In the dicodome paradox, he tries to show us that the concept of motion is itself beset by contradiction. It's either because you only have a finite time to visit all these points, or simply because no one can do an infinite number of things. Another of zeno's paradoxes makes pretty much the same point. We often thought that somehow modern mathematics and our modon infinity notions of infinity had solved the riesis paradox. The idea would be, i guess, that we now
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