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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 conclusions. [25] [2] To fully solve any of the paradoxes, however, one needs to show what is wrong with the argument, not just the conclusions. Throughout history several solutions have ...
These paradoxes may be due to fallacious reasoning , or an unintuitive solution . The term paradox is often used to describe a counter-intuitive result. However, some of these paradoxes qualify to fit into the mainstream viewpoint of a paradox, which is a self-contradictory result gained even while properly applying accepted ways of reasoning .
Zeno of Elea (/ ˈ z iː n oʊ ... ˈ ɛ l i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia).
In Zeno's arrow paradox, Zeno questioned how an arrow can move if at one moment it is here and motionless and at a later moment be somewhere else and motionless. Zeno's reasoning, however, is fallacious, when he says that if everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a ...
Patricia Curd states that the chronology of pre-Socratic philosophers is one of the most contentious issues of pre-Socratic philosophy. [1] Many of the historical details mentioned by Plato, Diogenes Laertius, or Apollodorus are generally considered by modern scholarship to be of little value, [1] and there are generally few exact dates that can be verified, so most estimates of dates and ...
The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, [2] in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument.
The main article of this entry of Zeno's Paradoxes, as of January 21, 2007 follows *largely* a mathemtical solution to the issue of Zeno's Paradoxes. That is to say, the overall theme of the main article is to give some validity to the idea of geometric series as a viable solution to the issue.
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