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Zeno’s paradoxes

שו”תCategory: philosophyZeno’s paradoxes
asked 11 months ago

Hello Rabbi
 
Is there a way to logically resolve Zeno’s paradoxes? By logical, I mean from a purely logical perspective, without any pretense.


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מיכי Staff answered 11 months ago
I didn’t understand the question. What in the Hadva is not purely logical? The one that writes it down formally? Beyond that, you don’t need any Hadva to solve them. On Achilles and the tortoise, it’s an infinite column. You don’t need derivatives or integrals (yes, you do need limits, but only for the formalism). And regarding the arrow in flight, see my article on that.

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Full of text, such as a definition of a group, a predicate, etc.
It is not just pure notation

מיכי Staff replied 11 months ago

What does it have to do with text? Pure logic can be described in text or in a formula. Beyond that, it is also possible to present the infinite without text.

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