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Zeno's paradoxes

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set of philosophical problems

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As soon as we say this or imagine it, we fall into error, because there is no _next_ point or _next_ instant. If there were, we should find Zeno's paradoxes, in some form, unavoidable, as will appear in our next lecture. One simple paradox may serve as an illustration. If our speck is in motion along the scale throughout the whole of a certain time, it cannot be at the same point at two consecutive instants.
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
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Zeno was concerned, as a matter of fact, with three problems, each presented by motion, but each more abstract than motion, and capable of a purely arithmetical treatment. These are the problems of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. To state clearly the difficulties involved, was to accomplish perhaps the hardest part of the philosopher's task. This was done by Zeno.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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She either makes a whole egg at once or none at all, and so of all her other units. It is only in the sphere of change, then, where one phase of a thing must needs come into being before another phase can come that Zeno's paradox gives trouble.
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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