Parmenides says: Reality is one, unchanging, and motionless.Change and movement are illusions created by the senses.Zeno doesn't say "motion is false" directly.He shows that if you believe in motion, you run into contradictions.Achilles gives a tortoise a head start.To catch it, Achilles must first reach where the tortoise was.But by then, the tortoise has moved ahead.This repeats infinitely.He can never logically overtake it because the path divides endlessly.To go from A to B, you must first go halfway.Then half of the remaining distance.Then half again... endlessly.You must complete infinitely many steps to move anywhere.So how does motion ever begin or finish?At any single instant, an arrow in flight is exactly where it is.In that instant, it is not moving.If time is made of instants, the arrow is always at rest.So where does motion come from?Your senses say: "Movement is obvious."Your reason says: "Movement leads to paradox."So which do you trust?If reason is your guide, then the world of change collapses.Change implies "what is not" becoming "what is".But "what is not" cannot exist.Therefore, change is impossible.Movement is not denied because it looks false...but because it cannot be thought without contradiction.The world you experience with your senses is not the world that truly is.Are you certain that perception equals truth?Or are you trusting appearances without examining them?Reality does not come and go.It does not move.It simply is.
not worth thinking about
>>844166044uand keep that in mind
yes, if there is a most general thing, there is a most general principle. yes, things that don't exist don't exist.
>>84416712This thread don't exist. Your body don't exist.
>>84416597>Achilles gives a tortoise a head start.>To catch it, Achilles must first reach where the tortoise was.No, he can move to where the tortoise currently is at any given moment. His greater speed means he will reach it even if it's moving directly away from him. He is not required to set its starting position as his target, move to the target, pick its new position as his target, move to the new position, etc. Even if he did that, due to their differing speeds, the distance between his origin and the tortoise's origin would decrease until it became less than his own bounding box at which point he has collided with the tortoise, in other words, he's reached it.
>>84416700>Reality isbrooooo...
>>84416597>He can never logically overtake it because the path divides endlessly.Math has definitively proven that you can summate infinite series. It's a lot like how astrology was made trite by kepler's laws, it used to be a serious consideration but was conquered with reason.
>>84416941You need to know something about what you call logic. What you have been calling logic is your ego's version of logic, but your ego is insane. Also your ego is your enemy, but you don't perceive that because you identify with it. You believe you are the ego.
>>84417046math isn't a subjective realm of analysis
Parmesian is onto something. But objects in motion stay in motion. Shit just is. Like the copper cable said, resistance is futile just melt my shit up senpai.All my niggers wu wei.>Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and bee not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage>galatians 5:1Doing stuff is bondage. Achilles can't get the tortoise because he is doing stuff while the tortoise just is.
>>84416597Zeno the philosopher challenged his students with this question. Does movement exist? A student bravely replied, "Yes, it does!""Movement exists? Zeni asked."Yes sir", the student replied.Zeno answered, "Achilles gives a tortoise a head start. To catch it, Achilles must first reach where the tortoise was. But by then, the tortoise has moved ahead. This repeats infinitely. He can never logically overtake it because the path divides endlessly. To go from A to B, you must first go halfway. Then half of the remaining distance. Then half again... endlessly. Movement is not denied because it looks false...but because it cannot be thought without contradiction". The student became quiet before such an answer. Zeno was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the concept of motion was a myth.Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question Zeno?""Of course", replied Zeno.The student stood up, removed an arrow and a gastraphetes from his backpack, and asked, "Zeno, is this arrow portruding from your chest?""What kind of question is this? Of course it isn't. It is right there in your hand." The students snickered at the young man's question.The young man proceeded to insert the arrow into the gastraphetes and cock the slider mechanism, arming the gastraphetes. He then aimed the gastraphetes at Zeno, and fired the arrow. The arrow rapidly passed through the air and pierced Zeno's chest. The student then said to Zeno, "if motion is such a contradiction, the arrow never could have hit you, and instead would grow closer and closer to you without ever touching you. Yet the arrow does seem to have made contact. So shut the fuck, you miserable sophist faggot."Zeno fell to the ground, dead. The professor sat down.The young man's name - Alexander the Great
>>84416597Refuted by Aristotle.
