Imagine an arrow being shot from a bow. In order to reach the target, the arrow must get midway though the distance it's being shot. But to get there, it has to reach half of that distance, and so on to an infinity of intermediary destinations. In conclusion, the arrow can never reach its final destination, or even leave the bow, for that matter.
This line of reasoning starts with apparently true hypotheses and reaches a false conclusion, by using a hidden "hole" in the logic.
What is that hole? What false assumption or deduction did Zenon make in order to reach the (obviously) false conclusion?
2006-10-31
08:48:07
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BlackMojave
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