AGAINST SPACE |
If place is something that exists, where will it be? If everything that exists has a place, it is clear that place, too, will have a place and so on ad infinitum.
(Aristotle Physics,...
Posted by ZENO on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
THE ARROW |
Time is made up of instants, which are the smallest measure and indivisible. An arrow is either in motion or at rest. An arrow cannot move, because for motion to occur, the arrow would have to be in o...
Posted by ZENO on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Achilles and the Tortoise |
It is impossible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise when pursuing it. For in fact it is necessary that what is to overtake [something], before overtaking [it], first reach the limit from whic...
Posted by ZENO on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
Dichotomy/Stadium |
To cross a unit space interval in a unit time, a runner must first cross half the interval in half the time, half of that half in one quarter of the time, and so forth over infinitely many points orde...
Posted by ZENO on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST |
