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From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman)
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Subject: Re:  Help (Zeno's Paradox)
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 17:13:40 EDT
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It seems that the real signficance of Zeno's Paradoxes is missed when
we take them too literally.  Zeno (a disciple of Parmenides) was
really implying a spacetime continuum.

If the motion of an object is viewed as an array of events in
four-dimensional spacetime, then from a standpoint of an assumed
viewpoint beyond spacetime, the object hasn't really moved from
event to event. It was, as it were, at every point of its world
line simultaneously.  Zeno and Parmenides founded the school of
Eleaticism (they lived in Elea), which held that all change (motion)
was an illusion.

                                  Henry Friedman