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The most clear way for me to resolve this famous-seemingly-deep-hard paradox lies in the modern infinite calculus which can be clearly expressed using Leibnitz dx symbol. So in summary, Zeno "describes" the displacement of a straight line trajectory as:
0 + 0 + 0 + ..(countably infinitely many).. + 0 = 0,
while in our same physical world the honest ...
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