Mathematics – science.maelbathfield.net https://science.maelbathfield.net Epistemology and philosophy of physics Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://science.maelbathfield.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-icon_site_science-1-32x32.png Mathematics – science.maelbathfield.net https://science.maelbathfield.net 32 32 The Arrow argument and Zeno’s dialectic https://science.maelbathfield.net/en/2021/01/06/835/ https://science.maelbathfield.net/en/2021/01/06/835/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:00:26 +0000 https://science.maelbathfield.net/?p=835 A new interpretation, closer to the original Greek text, of the ‘Flying Arrow’ argument will be proposed.

The complex dialectic formed by the 4 arguments concerning motion will be exposed.

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]]> https://science.maelbathfield.net/en/2021/01/06/835/feed/ 0 History of mathematics and Zeno’s paradoxes https://science.maelbathfield.net/en/2020/03/30/391/ https://science.maelbathfield.net/en/2020/03/30/391/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:04:10 +0000 https://science.maelbathfield.net/?p=391 Draft article in response to the article “When Science Confronts Philosophy: Three Case Studies” by Eric Dietrich: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10516-019-09472-9. It seems to me that including the case of the paradoxes of Zeno is not really wise compared to my own work (which E. Dietrich does not seem to have read)

Connections between mathematics and the paradoxes of Zeno’s movement will then be examined in great detail.

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