Essay On Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox

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Parmenides argued that Homo sapiens are conscious beings and are constantly aware. We can state that something exists or it does not, that “what is is and what is not not” where is refers to existence, being and not refers to non-being and nothingness (pg xx). Plato concluded that there are two different realms, the realm of being and becoming. For Plato, the realm of being encompasses that things do not change, born or die whereas, the realm of becoming holds that things do change and perish. The world of becoming is observed through our senses and the realm of being is perceived through the mind or reason. For constructing an account of reality, only the concept of what is can only be utilized. The concept of what is not cannot be used in …show more content…
His follower, Zeno extended this idea by conducting a paradox, which attempted to show that change (motion) and plurality are impossible. Paradoxes are arguments that seem logical but their conclusion is considered absurd or contradictory. Zeno had many paradox’s, but one of the one’s important to motion is the paradox of “Dichotomy” (Wesley salmo). The dichotomy paradox involves cutting things into pieces and that space is continuous. Zeno’s premise is that Achilles and tortoise are to race and the tortoise is give a head start since Achilles is the faster runner. For “Achilles to catch the tortoise, he must run to the tortoise’s initial place; then the tortoise will have advanced to a second place, so that Achilles must run on to the tortoise’s second place; and so on” (salmon pg). Achilles is the faster runner and logic would tell us that he should win the race but according to Zeno, that is not the case. If Achilles is to catch the tortoise, first he must get halfway, which takes a finite amount of time, and once he reaches that point, he then needs to complete the remain distance, which also takes a finite amount of time and so

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