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The article never really seems to circle back to Zeno’s paradox. I think the key thing in analyzing Zeno’s paradox, that doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the ar
by bmitc 4y ago
The article never really seems to circle back to Zeno’s paradox.
I think the key thing in analyzing Zeno’s paradox, that doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the article, is that it rests upon the assumption of a continuum. It isn’t clear that continuums actually exist in reality. For example, consider an analog of the paradox where you are filling a glass with water. If we take as fact that the smallest thing we can actually call water is an H2O molecule, then by filling the glass, all we are doing is filling it with a finite amount of H2O molecules. And the discussion of when is the glass full revolves around some discussion of packing density.