Essays Tagged: "Zeno's paradoxes"
Zeno of Elea
ause of his major contributions, the paradoxes, and some other minorcontributions.The most noted of Zeno's works are his paradoxes. Those dealing with plurality and withmotion. These were written in r ... nents argument to a contradiction of logic. Thiswas a typical argument against plurality.Similar to Zeno's argument against plurality is his argument against motion. He did nottruly believe that motio ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
The Motionless Arrow, Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Paradox
Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter 9 of Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study can be unde ... od in such a way that it might not be 'next door to madness'. In this chapter, Aristotle interprets Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as 'missing the mark'. There are four premises for this argument ... s of the argument. Though, by finding the premises false, the argument is not sound, and therefore, Zeno's argument leaves much to be said.Deciphering from what we know of the argument by what Aristot ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Achilles And The Tortoise
conclusion that if he proceeded with his plan, he would never reach his Bud.The soft underbelly of Zeno's argument is the assumption that the sum of an infinite number of numbers is always infinite. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature