Some New Infinity Puzzles

Philosophia 48 (3):1093-1099 (2020)
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Salmon was the first to speak explicitly of paradoxes of kinematics. In this short note I introduce a new class of infinity puzzles. Following natural terminology, they should actually be called static paradoxes.

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10.1007/s11406-019-00122-3

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Jon Perez Laraudogoitia
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Zeno’s Paradoxes.Wesley Charles Salmon (ed.) - 1970 - Indianapolis, IN, USA: Bobbs-Merrill.

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