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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

4786	Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]
	Full Idea: To reply to Zeno's Arrow Paradox, Russell developed his 'at-at' theory of motion, which says that to move from A to B is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants.
	From: report of Bertrand Russell (Human Knowledge: its scope and limits [1948]) by Stathis Psillos - Causation and Explanation §4.2
	A reaction: I wonder whether Russell's target was actually Zeno, or was it a simplified ontology of points and instants? The ontology will also need identity, to ensure it is the same thing which arrives at each point.