Zeno was one of the wisest ancient philosophers. Zeno used a paradoxical approach to represent his intriguing arguments. Some of his most famous antinomies are against plurality and movement. Zeno's arguments were preserved by Aristotle in the context of his own discussion. Zeno made 4 arguments related to motion, namely: the dichotomy argument, the Achilles, arrow and moving rows arguments. The topic that will be given emphasis in this essay is the arrow topic related to movement. In this arrow topic, he asks us to imagine a flying arrow and shows through the example of this arrow how nothing is moving. It does this by relating movement to the concepts of time periods, time instants, spaces and others. Zeno's third argument regarding motion has been divided into two fragments and is as follows: “Zeno argues fallaciously; For if, he says, everything always stops when it is against the same, and what is in motion is always in the now, the moving arrow is immobile. But this is false, because time is not composed of indivisible "nows", just as any other quantity is not." (Aristotle Physics 6.9, 239b30-33) The second part of his argument is as follows “ The third [argument concerning motion] is the one just mentioned, that the moving arrow is at rest. This comes from the assumption that time is made up of “now”; for if this is not granted, the conclusion will not follow. (Physics Aristotle 6.9, 239b30-33)For better understanding, it is necessary to understand the difference between a temporal instant and a temporal period in time. An instant in time can be thought of as a non-extended point in time. For example, a time period like 9:00. Suppose someone asks what is 9 in the morning? There would be... half the paper... to deny the existence of the movement. This would ultimately agree with Zeno. To conclude, Zeno discussed his opinions regarding the movement very well. His antinomies may seem absurd at first, but after clear understanding they seem very logical. The arrow argument certainly had some critics, but Zeno responded to these critics very well and managed to successfully argue against the existence of the movement. References Makin, Stephen (1998). Zeno of Elea. In E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge.Palmer, John (2012) 'Zeno of Elea', The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.)Warren, James (2007) 'Presocratics', Acumen Publishing, Durham. Pg 103-110Aristotle, Physics, from 'The Complete Works of Aristotle: Revised Oxford Translation) edited by Jonathan Barnes (Princeton University Press, 1984; two volumes).
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