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Single Idea 1508

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 7. Paradoxes of Time ]

Full Idea

Zeno's third argument claims that a moving arrow is still. Here the conclusion depends on assuming that time is composed of nows; if this assumption is not granted, the argument fails.

Gist of Idea

Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows

Source

comment on Zeno (Elea) (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE], A27?) by Aristotle - Physics 239b5

Book Ref

'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.76

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The 3 ideas with the same theme [contradiction is the precise analysis of time]:

1508	Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]

1902	Since Socrates either died when he was alive (a contradiction) or died when he was dead (meaningless), he didn't die [Sext.Empiricus]

23024

A traveller takes a copy of a picture into the past, gives it the artist, who then creates the original! [Baron/Miller]