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Zeno's paradoxes

Title: Zeno's paradoxes / edited by Wesley C. Salmon.
Author: Salmon, Wesley C.
Publication: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1970]

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x, 309 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

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The Library of liberal arts, LLA148

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Library of liberal arts ; 148.

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Contents

Resolution of the paradox, by A. Shimony.--Introduction, by W. C. Salmon.--The problem of infinity considered historically, by B. Russell.--The cinematographic view of becoming, by H. Bergson.--Achilles and the tortoise, by M. Black.--Achilles on a physical racecourse, by J. O. Wisdom.--Tasks and super-tasks, by J. Thomson.--Tasks, super-tasks, and the modern Eleatics, by P. Benacerraf.--Comments on Professor Benacerraf's paper, by J. Thomson.--Zeno and the mathematicians, by G. E. L. Owen.--Modern science and refutation of the paradoxes of Zeno. Zeno's metrical paradox of extension. Modern science and Zeno's paradoxes of motion. By A. Grünbaum.--Appendix: Sets and infinity, by W. C. Salmon.--Bibliography (p. 269-282)

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70103935

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106684
ocm00106684

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Columbia University Libraries