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Final Steps and Zeno's Paradox
In the SEP article on supertasks, it states that:
Max Black (1950) argued that it is nevertheless impossible to complete the Zeno task, since there is no final step in the infinite sequence. The ...
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Is there a distance so small it can't be further divided?
If I shoot an arrow at a target, at some point it will reach one half of the distance to the target. Then it will reach one half of that distance. It will continue to reach the half of the previous ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is this a solution to one of Zeno's paradoxes?
I was inspired by this wikipedia article invoking a notion of a "Supertask" (informally, an infinite sequence of operations performed in a finite amount of time) to pose Zeno's paradox.
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A Classical Notion of Dividing Travel Up into Infinite Divisions
1) A man wants me to go from a to b in a straight line.
2) Suppose he can, first he needs to go to (a-b)/2.
3) Suppose he can, secondly he needs to go to (a-b)/4.
4) There are infinitely many integers....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What are possible resolutions of the length unit paradox stemming from Zeno's Paradoxes?
The paradox in question: If every unit of length is made up of smaller units of length, it seems that you need to have units of length before a unit of length can come into existence. But this is ...
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Zeno's “Stadium” with the same metaphysical assumptions as his other paradoxes
“The Stadium” paradox is described by Aristotle as follows:
The fourth argument is that concerning the two rows of bodies, each row being composed of an equal number of bodies of equal size, ...
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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.
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What resolves Zeno's argument for the non-existence of place?
Aristotle discusses six dialectical arguments for the non-existence of place in Physics bk. Δ On Place, ch. 1 (209a); Zeno's argument is #5:
if everything that exists has a place, place too will ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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