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'After Finitude', 'On the Plurality of Worlds' and 'fragments/reports'
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification
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Quantification sometimes commits to 'sets', but sometimes just to pluralities (or 'classes') [Lewis]
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox
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We don't have time for infinite quantity, but we do for infinite divisibility, because time is also divisible [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]
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The fast runner must always reach the point from which the slower runner started [Zeno of Elea, by Aristotle]
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')
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Zeno is wrong that one grain of millet makes a sound; why should one grain achieve what the whole bushel does? [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 7. Paradoxes of Time
1508
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Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]
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