Achilles and the Tortoise
The fastest runner alive can never catch a tortoise with a head start. The argument is airtight. So where does it go wrong?
c. 450 BCE15 min read
Late Neoplatonism
Simplicius of Cilicia
480 – 560
Neoplatonist commentator on Aristotle, writing in the sixth century CE. His enormous commentary on the Physics quotes older texts at length, and is the sole surviving witness to the verbatim words of several Presocratics. Almost everything anyone can quote of Zeno exists because Simplicius copied it out roughly a thousand years after it was written.
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Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox
To cross a room you must first cross half of it, then half of what is left, and so on without end. So how does anyone move?
c. 450 BCE18 min read