Zeno of Eleia and the (im)possibility of movement
the paradox of dichotomy
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https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2025.262.06Keywords:
Zeno of Elea, pre-socratic philosophers, natural philosophy, cinematics, aristotelian physics.Abstract
This article intends to analyze Zeno of Eleia paradox of dichotomy, the first of the arguments against motion, with the intent of exploring some refutative possibilities, showing instead that movement is possible. For this, we will use above all the analyses present in Aristotle’s Physics, using the Aristotelian concepts of continuity, contiguity, and proximity in succession, as well as the refutations presented by H. Bergson about the nature of time and space. The finite-infinite conceptual pairs and the existing relationships between the time-space duality will also be analyzed.
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