| Friday, May 13, 2005 |
| Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Zeno's paradoxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of paradoxes devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that 'all is one' and that contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
Several of Zeno's eight surviving paradoxes (preserved in Aristotle's Physics and Simplicius's commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another; and most of them were regarded, even in ancient times, as very easy to refute. Three of the strongest and most famous -that of Achilles and the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flight - are given here." |
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