In the arrow paradox, Zeno states that for motion to occur, an object must change the position which it occupies. He gives an example of an arrow in flight. He states that in any one (duration-less) instant of time, the arrow is neither moving to where it is, nor to where it is not. It cannot move to where it is not, because no time elapses for it to move there; it cannot move to where it is, because it is already there. In other words, at every instant of time there is no motion occurring. If everything is motionless at every instant, and time is entirely composed of instants, then motion is impossible.
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Lol I was reading those in high school
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What do you think it is the solution?
In my opinion however small a instant can be there is still is motion. Otherwise time is not made up of these instants.
You cannot create the continuüm out of dots (instances) but you can the other way. The instances Zeno speaks about are abstractions from motion, there’s no route the other way as he makes clear.
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But how would we go about proving that time -in its classical sense- is indeed made up of instants? Is the number of instants between moment A and moment B infinite? If so, what would the consequences be for the argument?
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