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| - Zeno of Elea, (circa 490 BC – present), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, was the master of paradoxes. Zeno's most famous paradox about Achilles and the tortoise can be stated thusly: (Aristotle Physics VI:9, 239b15) We have all seen this paradox work in practice. Take a slow-moving child; whenever his mother turns away from it, it starts running, and then nobody can get it anymore. Or take a slow-moving heavy truck that's ahead of you on a very narrow road; you will never be able to pass it, even if you are on a motorcycle.
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| - Zeno of Elea, (circa 490 BC – present), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, was the master of paradoxes. Zeno's most famous paradox about Achilles and the tortoise can be stated thusly: (Aristotle Physics VI:9, 239b15) Stated for Dummies, this Parodox means that Achilles (the fleet-footed Greek war hero of Achilles Heel fame) can never catch up with the slow-poke tortoise if aforesaid tortoise believes in providence. Whenever Achilles reaches a point that is somewhere the tortoise has already been, the tortoise will have by then advanced 'mysteriously but surely' past that point, so that Archilles will still have farther to go, even if it is an infinitely small one. We have all seen this paradox work in practice. Take a slow-moving child; whenever his mother turns away from it, it starts running, and then nobody can get it anymore. Or take a slow-moving heavy truck that's ahead of you on a very narrow road; you will never be able to pass it, even if you are on a motorcycle. The mathematicians, who purport to prove this paradox as false, obviously haven't seen or been a child nor driven a car.
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