10 ideas
1507 | We don't have time for infinite quantity, but we do for infinite divisibility, because time is also divisible [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea] |
5109 | The fast runner must always reach the point from which the slower runner started [Zeno of Elea, by Aristotle] |
1512 | 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] |
1508 | Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
22236 | The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault] |
454 | If there are many things they must have a finite number, but there must be endless things between them [Zeno of Elea] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
455 | That which moves, moves neither in the place in which it is, nor in that in which it is not [Zeno of Elea] |
1511 | If everything is in a place, what is the place in? Place doesn't exist [Zeno of Elea, by Simplicius] |