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Pre-Socratic Discrete Kinematics

By: Claudio Calosi and  Vincenzo Fano  
Open Access
|Dec 2018

Abstract

We present a neglected heterodox version of Zeno’s paradox of the Stadium, underlining some problems that a discrete kinematics would have to account for. Building on our reconstruction of the Stadium argument we provide new arguments to show that a discrete kinematics cannot uphold three independently plausible assumptions about motion, that we label No Switching, Granular Continuity and Different Velocities, and hence it should drop at least one.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2013-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2182-2875 | Journal ISSN: 0873-626X
Language: English, Portuguese
Page range: 21 - 31
Submitted on: Jun 1, 2012
Accepted on: Nov 5, 2012
Published on: Dec 31, 2018
Published by: University of Lisbon
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2018 Claudio Calosi, Vincenzo Fano, published by University of Lisbon
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