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Author Salmon, Wesley C.

Title Zeno's paradoxes / edited by Wesley C. Salmon.

Publication Info. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1970]

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Description x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series The Library of liberal arts, LLA148
Library of liberal arts ; 148.
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)
Bibliography Bibliography.
Subject Zeno, of Elea.
Zeno, of Elea.