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The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle's Thoughts On Zeno's Arror Argument
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Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter
9 of Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study can be understood in such a way that it
might not be "next door to madness". In this chapter, Aristotle interprets
Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as "missing the mark". There are ....
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....ot at least some small
amount of movement occurring? When will time get so small that movement does
not occur? This is Aristotle's reasoning: that time will never get to a
"smallest" point, as length will never have a "smallest" division. Therefore,
he is rejecting the third premise, stating that time is not composed of
indivisible segments.
Zeno, however, feels that time can be divided into a "smallest" part.
After all, in physics, you can determine an object's instantaneous velocity or
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