You are more than welcome to the link; I think it adds to my hub to provide another viewpoint that is so different. Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on April 18, 2018: Yes, you will get there. Answer: There are no such activities in the body capable of causing such movement. Did Zeno make mistakes? We do have a direct quotation via Simplicius of the Paradox of Denseness and a partial quotation via Simplicius of the Large and Small Paradox. Blacks agrees that Achilles did not need to complete an infinite number of sub-tasks in order to catch the tortoise. From this perspective the Standard Solutions point-set analysis of continua has withstood the criticism and demonstrated its value in mathematics and mathematical physics. More specifically, the Standard Solution says that for the runners in the Achilles Paradox and the Dichotomy Paradox, the runners path is a physical continuum that is completed by using a positive, finite speed. Secondly, that between any points there must exist another point between them and some distance between these sub-points. It was thought that, because our experience is finite, the term actual infinite or completed infinity could not have empirical meaning, but potential infinity could. but: Knowing Truth from Malaysia on October 30, 2011: Wilderness, very interesting! The Standard Solution allows usto speak of one event happening pi seconds after another, and of one event happening the square root of three seconds after another. The details presuppose differential calculus and classical mechanics (as opposed to quantum mechanics). That doesn't mean there isn't a solution to the problem, though; that is exactly what calculus is designed to handle and solve. This number is confirmed by the sixth century commentator Elias, who is regarded as an independent source because he does not mention Proclus. But it doesntin this case it gives a finite sum; indeed, all these distances add up to 1! According to Zeno, there is a reassembly problem. Awareness of Zenos paradoxes made Greek and all later Western intellectuals more aware that mistakes can be made when thinking about infinity, continuity, and the structure of space and time, and it made them wary of any claim that a continuous magnitude could be made of discrete parts. Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status,. The fight of two worldsthe fundamental reason. In both cases, the final answer can be found as n approaches infinity. Even if it is physically impossible to flip the switch in Thomsons lamp because the speed of flipping the toggle switch will exceed the speed of light, suppose physics were different and there were no limit on speed; what then? Zeno's paradox has been a problem that has left mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists on the edge of their chairs. The distinction between a continuum and the continuum is that the continuum is the paradigm of a continuum. And while ultimately these paradoxes are demonstrably flawed, exploring them helps us to better understand these problems and the ideas of infinity that they exercise. In just a few more seconds it will be approaching 1 Planck length of distance (1.6*10^-35 meters) each second, the minimum linear distance possible in our universe. The two conflicting elements in this paradox are: 1 . A great addition here - thanks! An important feature demonstrating the usefulness of nonstandard analysis is that it achieves essentially the same theorems as those in classical calculus. It was generally accepted until the 19th century, but slowly lost ground to the Standard Solution. "Achilles and the Tortoise" is the easiest to understand, but it's devilishly difficult to explain away. Zeno's point is simply that space is divisible, and because it is divisible one cannot reach a specific point in space when another has moved from that point further. Suppose there exist many things rather than, as Parmenides says, just one thing. Analyzing these flaws will help us to resolve how we can have divisibility without encountering the issues laid out above. The Dialectic of Zeno, chapter 7 of. It took physics to finally solve it. Hit the switch once, it turns it on. Integral calculus complements this by taking a more complete view of a function throughout part or all of its domain. But Zenos assumption that places have places was common in ancient Greece at the time, and Zeno is to be praised for showing that it is a faulty assumption. Zeno is a Greek philosopher who lived around the time of 490 to 430 BC. What Robinson did was to extend the standard real numbers to include infinitesimals, using this definition: h is infinitesimal if and only if its absolute value is less than 1/n, for every positive standard number n. Robinson went on to create a nonstandard model of analysis using hyperreal numbers. Finally, mathematicians needed to define motion in terms of the derivative. Translation from The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. Thanks for the awesome hub. A famous philosopher Plato describes Zeno as a person who has a tall body and fair skin. Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on August 02, 2013: Perhaps I wasn't entirely clear - Zeno was interested in disproving the new mathematics, not in applying his work to reality. Prevodilac: Marija Koji Lektor: Jelena Kovaevi. To be less optimistic, the Standard Solution has its drawbacks and its alternatives, and these have generated new and interesting philosophical controversies beginning in the last half of the 20th century, as will be seen in later sections. Such is the nature of a paradox - it can be much worse than it states. This paradox is kind of like that - "what if" you view something like travel of a ball in a certain way? @Mikel: It was fun producing this, and I do find our different perspectives fascinating. The first is his Paradox of Alike and Unlike. It would require enormous energy to observe that last infinitesimal movement and that might not leave us with anything after the experiment. Turning Around : The Purpose of Education, according to Plato, There are a number of explanations and counterarguments that have been given for the above claims. A sum of all these sub-parts would be infinite. 325250 B.C.E.). In attacking justification (ii), Aristotle objects that, if Zeno were to confine his notion of infinity to a potential infinity and were to reject the idea of zero-length sub-paths, then Achilles achieves his goal in a finite time, so this is a way out of the paradox. In that case the original objects will be a composite of nothing, and so the whole object will be a mere appearance, which is absurd. Carrie Smith from Dallas, Texas on October 30, 2011: Congratulations on being the hub of the day! Is the lamp metaphysically impossible? Zeno's paradox. The argument that this is the correct solution was presented by many people, but it was especially influenced by the work of Bertrand Russell (1914, lecture 6) and the more detailed work of Adolf Grnbaum (1967). Zeno is confused about this notion of relativity, and about part-whole reasoning; and as commentators began to appreciate this they lost interest in Zeno as a player in the great metaphysical debate between pluralism and monism. As a consequence, advocates of the Standard Solution say we must live with rejecting the eight intuitions listed above, and accept the counterintuitive implications such as there being divisible continua, infinite sets of different sizes, and space-filling curves. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Three Arrows of Zeno: Cantorian and Non-Cantorian Concepts of the Continuum and of Motion,. Your article brought back my studies from my college days. The reason, of course, is that it is continually slowing down. Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on October 31, 2011: Thank you, RedElf. At that point, would you not consider that Pi is finally correct? Unfortunately, we know of no specific dates for when Zeno composed any of his paradoxes, and we know very little of how Zeno stated his own paradoxes. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's paradoxes are a famous set of thought-provoking stories or puzzles created by Zeno of Elea in the mid-5th century BC. The time taken by Achilles to catch the tortoise is a temporal interval, a linear continuum of instants, according to the Standard Solution (but not according to Zeno or Aristotle). 1 Answer. 38 0. A somewhat more common suggestion is that a more sophisticated mathematical modeling, which uses tools that post-date Zeno by more than thousand years manage to 'solve' or re-frame the paradoxes in a helpful way. in the city-state of Elea, now Velia, on the west coast of southern Italy; and he died in about 430 B.C.E. they must be both like and unlike. I understand Asymptotic, and the Tangential Curve. Copleston says Zenos goal is to challenge the Pythagoreans who denied empty space and accepted pluralism. Given 1,500 years of opposition to actual infinities, the burden of proof was on anyone advocating them. See Earman and Norton (1996) for an introduction to the extensive literature on these topics. Zeno's paradoxes are a famous set of thought-provoking stories or puzzles created by Zeno of Elea in the mid-5th century BC. Dedekinds positive real number 2 is ({x : x < 0 or x2 < 2} , {x: x2 2}). Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on October 17, 2015: I'll try to explain the reasoning. Ditto for the back part. If Achilles had to cover these sorts of distances over the course of the racein other words, if the tortoise were making progressively larger gaps rather than smaller onesAchilles would never catch the tortoise. Like the Achilles Paradox, this paradox also concludes that any motion is impossible. Imagine cutting the object into two non-overlapping parts, then similarly cutting these parts into parts, and so on until the process of repeated division is complete. An object extending along a straight line that has one of its end points at one meter from the origin and other end point at three meters from the origin has a size of two meters and not zero meters. Aristotles treatment does not do this. Ovo je Zenon od Eleje, antiki Grki filozof. It adds an interesting perspective to the already fascinating paradox. A criticism of Thomsons interpretation of his infinity machines and the supertasks involved, plus an introduction to the literature on the topic. At the 10 second mark the ball is only 1/8 of a meter from the light beam, but is also only traveling at 1/8 meter per second. Are you measuring the halfway point of a halfway point? Should we conclude that it makes no sense to divide a finite task into an infinite number of ever shorter sub-tasks? Lets assume he is, since this produces a more challenging paradox. We were out having coffee, and talking off the tops of our heads and through our hats about just such complex concepts, including paralell universes. An analysis of the debate regarding the point Zeno is making with his paradoxes of motion. If there are alternative treatments of Zenos paradoxes, then this raises the issue of whether there is a single solution to the paradoxes or several solutions or one best solution. Zeno's story about a race between Achilles and a tortoise nicely illustrates the paradox of infinity. @ Knowing Truth; Indeed man can seldom wrap our feeble minds around the concept of infinity. (2005). Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on October 16, 2015: Ah but it does. We make essentially the same point when we say the objects speed is the limit of its average speed over an interval as the length of the interval tends to zero. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. By the end, you'll know . It is the application of math that causes problems, illustrated very well by Zeno's paradox. As for the ball example, we can simply conduct a thought experiment in which a person holds a ball, and attempts to move it, in whatever manner -- the same conundrum will arise. There is a minimum size of anything in our universe. The treatment called the Standard Solution to the Achilles Paradox uses calculus and other parts of real analysis to describe the situation. Calculus to the rescue! This new method of presentation was destined to shape almost all later philosophy, mathematics, and science. It is useful only in solving problems and is not something that we can measure or even actually approach. The problem is that it ignores reality. Although Zeno had also argued that discontinuous motion is also impossible, that wouldn't be true if our reality was actually a simulation like a video game. The movement of objects is only approximately described by classical mechanics; when you look at smaller and smaller time intervals and length scales, the classical picture in which the motion is supposed to be continuous, becomes increasingly inaccurate. So, on this second interpretation, the paradox is also easy to solve. Aristotle and Zeno disagree about the nature of division of a runners path. Little research today is involved directly in how to solve the paradoxes themselves, especially in the fields of mathematics and science, although discussion continues in philosophy, primarily on whether a continuous magnitude should be composed of discrete magnitudes, such as whether a line should be composed of points. It reaches the light beam with no trouble. This is an attack on plurality. Platos classical interpretation of Zeno was accepted by Aristotle and by most other commentators throughout the intervening centuries. Motion is not some feature that reveals itself only within a moment. This idealization of continuous bodies as if they were compositions of point particles was very fruitful; it could be used to easily solve otherwise very difficult problems in physics. In the mid-twentieth century, Hermann Weyl, Max Black, James Thomson, and others objected, and thus began an ongoing controversy about the number of tasks that can be completed in a finite time. Zeno did assume that the classical Greek concepts were the correct concepts to use in reasoning about his paradoxes, and now we prefer revised concepts, though it would be unfair to say he blundered for not foreseeing later developments in mathematics and physics. Thanks to Aristotles support, Zenos Paradoxes of Large and Small and of Infinite Divisibility (to be discussed below) were generally considered to have shown that a continuous magnitude cannot be composed of points. Otherwise, the cut defines an irrational number which, loosely speaking, fills the gap between A and B, as in the definition of the square root of 2 above. Explores the implication of arguing that theories of mathematics are indispensable to good science, and that we are justified in believing in the mathematical entities used in those theories. This would of made math more interesting to many! Thank you. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1966) nonstandard analysis. The lamp could be either on or off at the limit. Thank you. This is about 1.6X10^(-30) meters. The problem of the runner getting to the goal can be viewed from a different perspective. lol. Zenos paradoxes caused mistrust in infinites, and this mistrust has influenced the contemporary movements of constructivism, finitism, and nonstandard analysis, all of which affect the treatment of Zenos paradoxes. You can say that, in the last second, or in the entire trip, the ball actually *does* cross an infinite amount of half-way points. A billion lifetimes of boredom isn't even the very first baby step towards an infinite lifespan. If Achilles it to catch up to the tortoises new position, then he must use up more time that the tortoise will use to get a little further, and so on. Bradley Dowden Tasks, Super-Tasks, and the Modern Eleatics,. This is why there are so many absurdities in the fields of mathematical physics and particularly Quantum physics. Because Zeno was correct in saying Achilles needs to run at least to all those places where the tortoise once was, what is required is an analysis of Zenos own argument. Zeno was not, therefore, the first proponent of Planck space as you indicate; he was mathematician (not a physicist) trying to disprove a new field of math. So, it'd be current = current + (target_position - current) / 2, which can be simplified with math into just taking the average: current = (current . Continuity is something given in perception, said Brentano, and not in a mathematical construction; therefore, mathematics misrepresents. As Aristotle realized, the Dichotomy Paradox is just the Achilles Paradox in which Achilles stands still ahead of the tortoise. The Austrian philosopher Franz Brentano believed with Aristotle that scientific theories should be literal descriptions of reality, as opposed to todays more popular view that theories are idealizations or approximations of reality. And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack. A detailed defense of the Standard Solution to the paradoxes. ), Plato (427-347 B.C.E. In ordinary discourse outside of science we would never need this kind of precision, but it is needed in mathematical physics and its calculus. 346-7.]. I hope this helps. since it might be impossible to measure time and space below a certain threshold, Zeno could impossibly imagine a point in time or space between two points below this threshold. The Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise is one of a number of theoretical discussions of movement put forward by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea in the 5th century BC. A continuum is too smooth to be composed of indivisible points. A rather esoteric idea, but if true it negates the paradox. Zenos arguments, in some form, have afforded grounds for almost all theories of space and time and infinity which have been constructed from his time to our own, said Bertrand Russell in the twentieth century. Learn on the go with our new app. Calculus was invented in the late 1600s by Newton and Leibniz. 94-6 for some discussion.]. Presupposes considerable knowledge of mathematical logic. Then, it must travel through the next half-way point, leaving 25 feet remaining. Its the one that talks about addition of zeroes. (An infinite sum such as the one above is known in mathematics as an infinite series, and when such a sum adds up to a finite number we say that the series is summable.). A very early description of set theory and its relationship to old ideas about infinity. Zeno's Paradox. Now the resolution to Zenos Paradox is easy. His reasoning for why they have no size has been lost, but many commentators suggest that hed reason as follows. Zeno's paradoxes are a famous set of thought-provoking stories or puzzles created by Zeno of Elea in the mid-5th century BC. @Frannie: It goes back a long way, doesn't it? Was it proper of Thomson to suppose that the question of whether the lamp is lit or dark at the end of the minute must have a determinate answer? current + (target_position / 2) makes no sense, as you're adding half the distance between the target position and the starting point every step, when you want to be adding half the distance between the target position and the current position. Each body is the same distance from its neighbors along its track. By the time Achilles reaches that location, the tortoise will have moved on to yet another location, and so on forever. The implication is that Zenos Paradoxes were not solved correctly by using the methods of the Standard Solution. However, Aristotle merely asserted this and could give no detailed theory that enables the computation of the finite amount of time. (1958). Constructivism is not a precisely defined position, but it implies that acceptable mathematical objects and procedures have to be founded on constructions and not, say, on assuming the object does not exist, then deducing a contradiction from that assumption. In the article, the situation described is a radioactive particle (or, as described in the original article, an "unstable quantum system"). (Achilles was the great Greek hero of Homers The Iliad.) This method of indirect proof or reductio ad absurdum probably originated with Greek mathematicians, but Zeno used it more systematically and self-consciously. But the Standard Solution needs to be thought of as a package to be evaluated in terms of all of its costs and benefits. However, this domain cannot itself be something variable. Now if Newton hadn't found calculus you might not Glenn Stok from Long Island, NY on April 18, 2018: I always considered Zeno's Paradox an interesting physical discrepancy of moving objects. Joseph De Cross from New York on October 30, 2011: Such a hub, mixing History and factsthe ride of Math becomes fun, little bump here and there. In both cases, the final answer is T=2 as the number of halfway points crossed approaches ; the ball will touch the light beam in 2 seconds. It cannot move during the moment because there is not enough time for any motion, and the moment is indivisible. Could some other argument establish this impossibility? In that sense it maps 100% the movement of things through meta-physical spaces. The same reasoning holds for any other moment during the so-called flight of the arrow. Reality, he said, is a seamless unity that is unchanging and can not be destroyed, so appearances of reality are deceptive. Contains a discussion of how the unsplitability of Brouwers intuitionistic continuum makes precise Aristotles notion that you cant cut a continuous medium without some of it clinging to the knife, on pages 345-7. For ease of understanding, Zeno and the tortoise are assumed to be point masses or infinitesimal particles, each moving at a constant velocity (that is, a constant speed in one direction). Our ordinary observation reports are false; they do not report what is real. When we consider a university to be a plurality of students, we consider the students to be wholes without parts. Then every part of any plurality is both so small as to have no size but also so large as to be infinite, says Zeno. You're headed in the right direction -- an invisible NONLOCAL "meta-space" supports the physical visible space many incorrectly assume to be perfectly continuous. So, Zenos paradoxes have had a wide variety of impacts upon subsequent research. There is no need to bring out the bogus "math" being used by frauds in their schemes to separate the superstitious from the contents of their wallets. The Dichotomy paradox, in either its Progressive version or its Regressive version, assumes here for the sake of simplicity and strength of argumentation that the runners positions are point places. Zeno claimsAchilles will never catch the tortoise. Thus, Zeno's syllogism breaks down. A well respected survey of the philosophical contributions of the Pre-Socratics. A and B are non-empty, and they partition all the rationals so that the numbers in A are less than all those in B, and also A contains no greatest number. ber die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen.. The original source is AristotlesPhysics (209a23-25 and 210b22-24). Einstein used mathematics to discover theory of relativity. There are two ways to look at the paradox; an object with constant velocity and an object with changing velocity. The spirit of Aristotles opposition to actual infinities persists today in the philosophy of mathematics called constructivism. The A bodies are stationary. The Purpose of Zenos Arguments on Motion,. In the third chapter I show how Zeno takes up and advances Parmenides's criteria for philosophy by developing the genre of paradoxes. As a slightly more general example, we can say that in order for us to get from point A to point B, we must travel the distance between these points. Again, if you have physical evidence to the contrary, the Nobel is all yours. Every time you go halfway, make a new measurement from that location, giving a new halfway point. First, he turns it on. 1. ANOTHER QUESTION: Here the lamp started out being off. Very well, replied the Tortoise, so now there is a meter between us. . Since both cannot account or provide 1:1 correspondences, it is a "superstition" (in quite literal terms) to assert the calculus solves Zeno's Paradoxes. They all deal with problems of the apparently continuous nature of space and time. There is another paradoxical consequence. Apparently, it . On this point, in remarking about the Achilles Paradox, Aristotle said, Zenos argument makes a false assumption in asserting that it is impossible for a thing to pass overinfinite things in a finite time. Aristotle believed it is impossible for a thing to pass over an actually infinite number of things in a finite time, but he believed that it is possible for a thing to pass over a potentially infinite number of things in a finite time. Suppose there exist many things rather than, as Parmenides would say, just one thing. He was not a mathematician. Zeno's Paradox So the paradox goes like this. Your having a property in common with some other thing does not make you identical with that other thing. If you have evidence to the contrary, I suggest you submit your work to the various physics organisations and await your Nobel Prize. These accomplishments by Cantor are why he (along with Dedekind and Weierstrass) is said by Russell to have solved Zenos Paradoxes.. Yes, there are many paradoxes in our world, and they don't stop at morals and politics. One track contains A bodies (three A bodies are shown below); another contains B bodies; and a third contains C bodies. It begins with the. I did that because the time numbers are much easier to find than a constant (between halfway points) negative acceleration would produce and because the time figures resulting made it easier to see just what was happening. Frank Arntzenius (2000), Michael Dummett (2000), and Solomon Feferman (1998) have done important philosophical work to promote the constructivist tradition. (Cantor 1887). Hit it again, it turns it off. Zeno of Elea (c. 450 BCE) is credited with creating several famous paradoxes, and perhaps the best known is the paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles. Zeno is an ancient Greek philosopher who describes a simple situation that the intuition of a human being tells them that it is obviously correct . Since they use beams at 60ft, 330ft, 660ft, 1000ft and finally the 1320ft I always just viewed it as from start to the consecutive beam. This topic has been handled more congruently (with physical reality) on https://hubpages.com/education/Congruent-solutions Dan Harmon (author) from Boise, Idaho on March 21, 2012: I perhaps see our difference. This problem may sound easy to comprehend, but it is relatively difficult to prove or find an actual solution. The ten are of uneven quality. Tasks and Super-Tasks,. And poor old Achilles would have won his race. Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been, he can never overtake the tortoise.[1][2]. Zeno's paradoxes are a famous set of thought-provoking stories or puzzles created by Zeno of Elea in the mid-5th century BC. In the example of Achilles race with the tortoise, we would say that the time it takes Achilles to catch up to the distance tortoise in each step becomes smaller and smaller, approaching an infinitesimal distance. These ideas now form the basis of modern real analysis. (Physics 263b2-5). There are four reasons. So, objects are not divisible into a plurality of parts. @ tlmntim: Glad you enjoyed it. He knew he was the superior athlete, but he also knew the Tortoise had the sharper wits, and he had lost many a bewildering argument with him before this. According to Platos commentary in his Parmenides (127a to 128e), Zeno brought a treatise with him when he visited Athens. Indeed, it's why tuners are well paid! It is an actually infinite set of points abstracted from a continuum of points, in which the word continuum is used in the late 19th century sense that is at the heart of calculus. Zenos Paradox may be rephrased as follows. What is Zeno's paradox simplified? (More will be said about assumption (5) inSection 5c when we discuss supertasks.). Consider the difficulties that arise if we assume that an object theoretically can be divided into a plurality of parts. Zeno, however, was not concerned with physical practicality, only the mathematics of it. When moving the ball through sub-Planck scaled increments (required by infinite-series solutions), then your calculus fails, quite spectacularly. (1953). By the early 20th century most mathematicians had come to believe that, to make rigorous sense of motion, mathematics needs a fully developed set theory that rigorously defines the key concepts of real number, continuity and differentiability. Leibniz accepted actual infinitesimals, but other mathematicians and physicists in European universities during these centuries were careful to distinguish between actual and potential infinities and to avoid using actual infinities. That is one thing I stay far away from! Where a series is defined as the sum of a sequence of numbers, a series is convergent if the sum is finite. A circle for example still uses Pi, and Pi is not a precise number. In 1734, Berkeley had properly criticized the use of infinitesimals as being ghosts of departed quantities that are used inconsistently in calculus. Whats a whole and whats a plurality depends on our purposes. So a simple solution is that at some point motion must be discontinuous like the frames on a movie film. This is not clear, and the Standard Solution works for both. Unfortunately Newton and Leibniz did not have a good definition of the continuum, and finding a good one required over two hundred years of work. Zeno was a Greek philosopher who came up with the paradox theory. The quantum Zeno effect was originally presented in the 1977 paper "The Zeno's Paradox in Quantum Theory" (Journal of Mathematical Physics, PDF ), written by Baidyanaith Misra and George Sudarshan. This distance that the second ball will have traveled my never reach the 64 meter mark because at some point, its acceleration and velocity will have reach or in this case approach zero before the 64 meter is reached. Le Concept Scientifique du continu: Zenon dElee et Georg Cantor, pp. So, the Standard Solution is much more complicated than Aristotles treatment. It was interesting to research and write, too. Aristotle had said mathematicians need only the concept of a finite straight line that may be produced as far as they wish, or divided as finely as they wish, but Cantor would say that this way of thinking presupposes a completed infinite continuum from which that finite line is abstracted at any particular time. Since the bushel is composed of individual grains, each individual grain also makes a sound, as should each thousandth part of the grain, and so on to its ultimate parts. Now, after I thought about all that, I continued reading your article and your second exampleusing constant velocitysatisfied me. After some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 metres, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point. [Due to the forces involved, point particles have finite cross sections, and configurations of those particles, such as atoms, do have finite size.] Point (4) arises because the standard of rigorous proof and rigorous definition of concepts has increased over the years. . And so one. Zeno didn't know how to solve his paradox, didn't have the math tools to do it, and it thus did not represent the world as it was supposed to. But when the tyrant came near, Zeno bit him, and would not let go until he was stabbed. Achilles and the Tortoise,. Suppose we take Zenos Paradox at face value for the moment, and agree with him that before I can walk a mile I must first walk a half-mile. Zenos Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles. 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