What is Xeno's Paradox

by Carl Becker

Introduction Like so many other scientific and philosophical endeavors in Ancient Greece, Zeno of Elea's paradox (or, more accurately, paradoxes at one time there were in fact up to forty recorded variations on the sam...read more

by Robert Picken

Xeno's paradox,like any paradox,was the result of a simple misunderstanding,to give Xeno the benefit of the doubt.It is obvious that Achilles would catch and pass the tortoise at a certain time. Xeno merely halved this ...read more

by Matthew Ryan

Xeno (or Zeno) was a disciple of the ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides. Parmenides believed that Reality was One: it was a single, homogeneous thing, indivisible and changeless. This seems, at first glance, to be an o...read more

by Marc Chiesa

There were at least four self contractictory arguments concerning time and space that circulated around the philosophical schools in Athens during the fifth century B.C. The one that was most closely associated with Zeno ...read more

by Adelaide Whether

There are in fact three paradoxes of Xeno's - 1.The paradox of Achilles and the turtle: Achilles and the turtle are having a race. The turtle gets a head start of x meters. Achilles then starts running and must first...read more

by Nicholas Farrow

Xeno's paradox can be most simply explained by imagining Achilles, a powerful athlete, having a race against a tortoise. Let us assume that Achilles can run ten times as fast as the tortoise, and that the tortoise gets 100...read more

by Moshe ben-Avraham

Zeno's paradox was an early attempt to describe the difference because the application of mathematics to describe the physical world. It arose in the context of Greek philosophy, specifically in the school of philosophy wh...read more

by Joey Benedict

If God created the Universe, who created God? If the Big Bang gave rise to the Universe, who created the physical laws that caused the Big Bang? Life overflows with paradoxes. They make life confusing, but they also make l...read more

by Kirk Boyer

Xeno's (or Zeno's) paradox refers to the simplest form of the favorite paradox of the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea. Xeno's paradox arises when considering travel from one point to another. Xeno argues that long before...read more

by Hoc Trinh

Xeno's paradox explains that if you are traveling from point A to point B you must travel half of the distance to point B before traveling all of the distance. At that point, you must again travel half of the remaining dis...read more

by Charles Scott

Xeno's paradox refers to a basic calculus II problem in dealing with infinite series and sequences. The Greek symbol sigma, that weird E thats kinda bent in the middle is a summation relation. The number under the symbol i...read more