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>Imagine that Achilles notes the position ... and so on If in logic you assume/imagine something, and reach a contradiction, then your reaction should be to re
by im2w1l 11y ago
>Imagine that Achilles notes the position ... and so on
If in logic you assume/imagine something, and reach a contradiction, then your reaction should be to reject that assumption.
In this case we reach the conclusion that Achilles cannot note all the positions.
- coldtea 11y agoThat's not adding anything new. The very idea of the thought experiment is that we reach a contradiction and that we therefore should reject the assumption. The problem, and the whole point of the thought experiment, is that the assumption is tied to Achilles being able to make the distance, so we should ditch that too.