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things are not many: All is One - the view of Parmenides
Zeno's work the Treatise is a defense of Parmenides' work.
Zeno works with paradoxes to defend Parmenides belief that plurality is false and all things are one.
His paradoxes of Achilles, my favorite because it reminds me of the tortoise and the hare and if I understand it right, states that Achilles will never catch the tortoise even though Achilles is faster the tortoise because the tortoise is still moving. So if the tortoise starts 100 meters in front of Achilles and it takes 10 seconds for Achilles to move those 100 meters he would not have caught the tortoise because it would have moved from his spot, lets say the tortoise moved 10 meters. Then Achilles runs the 10 meters in 1 second but the tortoise moved a meter in that second and so on. In my opinion the paradox is like the commercial from a couple years ago that had a guy talking then at the end he says it makes sense if you do not think about it, that's how I look at this paradox So either I missed the point or it just did not make sense because no matter how you look at it Achilles would catch up to the tortoise, mathematically or in real life. Any time two people are running and one is faster than the other, the faster will over take the slower, unless the faster person gives up before that time has occurred. And if I were Achilles, I would have probably given up after 100 meters.
Good engagement with this paradox. It's not necessarily the case that a faster person will pass a slower person since it depends on how far ahead the slower one begins. The idea that Achilles has to catch up to the tortoise an infinite number of times is I take it what is supposed to make this paradoxical.
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