Does contemporary analysis of difficulties with Zeno sequences contain a solution to the dichotomy?
- Authors: Berestov I.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Philosophy and Law SB RAS
- Issue: Vol 2, No 1 (2021)
- Pages: 28-36
- Section: PHILOSOPHY
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2713-3125/article/view/376565
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.47850/RL.2021.2.1.28-36
- ID: 376565
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Abstract
We analyze contemporary thought experiments with some Zeno objects and infinity machines. We show how the method of reasoning from J. Hawthorne’spaper helps to understand the structure of one of the refutations of a rather sophisticated version of Zeno’sof Elea Dichotomy. After that, wepropose an improvement of this version of the Dichotomy. Further, weshow that the method of operating with infinite sequences of conditional sentences – proposed in J. Hawthorne’spaper – is insufficient to refute the last variant of the Dichotomy.
About the authors
I. V. Berestov
Institute of Philosophy and Law SB RAS
Email: berestoviv@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0782-761X
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Senior Researcher Novosibirsk
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