Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion and the Labyrinth of Continuum

• Authors: Tomasz Placek

Title variants

PL

Paradoksy ruchu Zenona z Elei a labirynt kontinuum: „Achilles i żółw”, „Strzała”, „Stadion”

EN

Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion and the Labyrinth of Continuum

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In the article three Zeno's paradoxes are reconstructed. They are: „Achilles and the turtle”, „Arrow” and „Stadium”. Together with the paradox of „Dichotomy” (which was analysed by the author elsewhere) they form the question about the nature of continuum. In the paper the following hypothesis is accepted: „Dichotomy” is principally connected with the mathematical theory of continuum, whereas other paradoxes concern the application of this theory to the description of physical motion.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 1997
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-77

Dates

published

1997-03-01

Contributors

author

Tomasz Placek