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Zeno’s Dichotomy aporia says: “Motion is impossible, because an object in motion must reach the half-way point before it gets to the end (Telos)”. In the recent philosophical literature there are several kinds of interpretations: negative and positive dialectics, atomism, radical empiricism, finitism, infinitism, indefinitism, etc. The scientific reflections on the paradoxes time to time produce different types of “resolutions” of these problems.[1] Most of these treatments use some kind of measure concept which can be questioned.[2] Instead of resolution, we suggest to apply Zeno’s results which can be explored by some kind of interpretation.
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Ropolyi, L., Szegedi, P. (1999). Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics. In: Greenberger, D., Reiter, W.L., Zeilinger, A. (eds) Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1999], vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1454-9_25
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