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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 .
The hindrance of a quantum system by observing it is usually called the Quantum Zeno effect as it is strongly reminiscent of Zeno's arrow paradox. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In the field of verification and design of timed and hybrid systems , the system behavior is called Zeno if it includes an infinite number of discrete steps in a finite amount of time.
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.
Zeno's paradoxes was one of the Philosophy and religion good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria .
The universe, in Zeno's view, is God: [49] a divine reasoning entity, where all the parts belong to the whole. [50] Into this pantheistic system he incorporated the physics of Heraclitus; the universe contains a divine artisan-fire, which foresees everything, [51] and extending throughout the universe, must produce everything:
Zeno divided philosophy into three parts: Logic (which was a very wide subject including rhetoric, grammar, and the theories of perception and thought); Physics (including not just science, but the divine nature of the universe as well); and Ethics, the end goal of which was to achieve happiness through the right way of living according to Nature.