Zeno of Elea (commonly known as Zeno) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is well-known for Zeno's paradoxes. Not to be confused with Zeno of Citium, a lesser-known Hellenistic philosopher.
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Why is Aristotle's objection not considered a resolution to Zeno's paradox?
It seems to me, perhaps naïvely, that Aristotle resolved Zenos' famous paradoxes well, when he said that,
Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles,
and that Aquinas clarified the…
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Does thermal time hypothesis finally resolve Zeno's paradox?
Is Time Just A Trick Of The Mind? (read article)
Carlo Rovelli, one of the founder of Loop Quantum Gravity theory likes to think so. Furthermore wikipedia entry highlights:
This position has lead him to face the following problem: if time is not…
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Is Aristotle's resolution of Zeno's paradoxes vindicated by motion in the intuitionistic continuum?
In Physics VIII.8, Aristotle refers to his usual resolution of Zeno's paradox of motion:
We should make the same response to anyone who uses Zeno's argument to ask whether it is always necessary to traverse half the distance first, and points out…
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Do Hume’s Problem and Zeno’s Arrow Paradox have the same solution?
Both Hume’s Problem and Zeno’s Arrow Paradox freeze an observation in time. Do they have the same solution?
To show that the future may not be predicted from the past, the test that David Hume applies is whether, given a series of observations and a…
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How do empiricists explain zeno's paradox(es)?
If Zeno seemed to prove our perceptions cannot be trusted, how, then, can/does an Empiricist justify faith in their perceptions? I'm looking for various solutions (or justifications in the face of the paradoxes to maintain Empiricism) of these…
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In what sense are a brown horse and a dark ox "three together"?
Confuzius started the fight against the sophists back then. After his death other sophists like Kung-sun Lung came and stated things like:
"The shadow of a flying bird doesn't move."
Ok, this sounds like Zenon's flying arrow argument so can follow…
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What is the difference between Zeno's "Dichotomy" and Richardson's "Coast of England" paradox?
We assume, though I believe it can be debated, that Zeno's "Dichotomy" paradox is apparently "unreal." We can treat any given distance as the sum of an infinite regress of smaller and smaller distances, so the person walking that distance never…
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Which ancient Greeks are known to have commentated on Zeno's Paradoxes?
The Stanford Encycl. of Philosophy mentions that we know of Zeno's work only through various secondary sources, "principally through Aristotle and his commentators."
I was wondering, which other ancient Greek commentators on Zeno are known? I would…
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Why is Diogenes the Cynic's solution to Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox insufficient?
According to Wikipedia's discussion of Zeno's Dichotomy paradox (emphasis mine),
According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's…
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A new challenge to physical reality
So recently I was thinking about Zeno's paradox (of infinite sum of 1/2^n in motion). Although I love calculus, I still don't get how it could possibly solve the paradox in Physical world, because although in theory we can bypass it by using…
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Zeno's stadium paradox: If space is not continuous or discrete, what is it?
Zeno's paradoxes are paradoxical because they show that in a world of continuous time and space, there cannot be any motion, thus all motion that we see are some kind of illusion. His paradoxes then rely on the infinite divisibility of real numbers…
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Does the uncertainty principle resolve Zeno’s arrow paradox?
Zeno’s arrow paradox says that motion is impossible. Does quantum mechanics say that the underlying assumption is wrong?
Assumption: in any given moment, an arrow in flight is motionless. Then it remains stationary at every moment. Thus the arrow…
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What importance, if any, do infinitesimals still have for philosophers?
What importance, if any, do infinitesimals still have to philosophers? It seems like many people are baffled by them. E.g., there's a slew of questions relating to Zeno on this site (not least by myself), and I hear that 0.999 is a common topic on…
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Formulation and clarification of Zeno's arrow paradox
Is it correct to formulate Zeno's arrow paradox as follows?
1) If the arrow is still, it is not moving.
2) The flight of an arrow can be broken into instances, in all of which the arrow is still.
3) Hence, putting all of these instances of time…
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Experiencing and sensing time dilation when a person dies and the logic of
It is well known that when a person goes to sleep, there are instances when we do not experience time which has phenomenological implications. There is a temporal discontinuity. It is also known that psychoactive substances often slow down time,…
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