Zeno’s enterprise: a monument to creativity
Keywords:
Zeno, paradox, infinitesimal, enigma, puzzleAbstract
Zeno’s paradoxes, although they might appear to be simple theses directed against common perspectives, show themselves to be an extraordinary innovation for the purpose of creating science. In their argumentative structure they operate at a high philosophical level, and in a way that forbids us to reduce them to mere puzzles or dramatic presentations of problems to be solved. Zeno’s paradoxes retain their problematic status, serving as a provocative challenge to his interlocutors and to many commonly accepted notions, and thus permit us to regard him as the philosopher of philosophy.References
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