Temporal dimension of new-zeno paradoxes
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-85-88
EDN: PPXJKE
Abstract
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e. strictly increasing or strictly decreasing denumerable sequences with limits. The paper focuses on the space ship paradox formulated by José Benardete, and some of its varieties formulated by Bas van Fraassen and Pérez Laraudogoitia. It is shown that paradoxes of this sort demonstrate a certain symmetry with respect to predictability and reconstructibility of events under consideration.
About the Author
E. V. Borisov
Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BORISOV Evgeny Vasilyevich, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher of the Philosophy Department
Novosibirsk, Nikolayeva St., 8, 630090
AuthorID (РИНЦ): 278628
ResearcherID: T-3807-2017
AuthorID (SCOPUS): 56287727200
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Borisov E.V. Temporal dimension of new-zeno paradoxes. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(4):85-88. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-85-88. EDN: PPXJKE
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