The Impossibility of Superfeats

Southern Journal of Philosophy 38 (2):207-220 (2000)
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Abstract

Is it logically possible to perform a "superfeat"? That is, is it logically possible to complete, in a finite time, an infinite sequence of distinct acts? In opposition to the received view, I argue that all physical superfeats have kinematic features that make them logically impossible.

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Michael B. Burke
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