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It seems to me that Zeno's paradoxes just show how
limited his knowledge of math was.
The one Wordsmith gives is the runner who allegely can never even start, because before he and run a hundred meters, he has to run fifty meters, and before that he has to run twenty five meters, and so on ad infinitum, and so cannot even start. As with the turtle paradox, it seems to
me Zeno's problem was lack of concept of velocity. The turtle paradox appears to assume Achille's velocity is same as turtle's, which is just plain ignorant.
I was lucky to get a "C" in philosophy. What do some of you
"A" students say?
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