ZENO’S ARROW PARADOX AND PRIMITIVE TEMPORAL ENTITIES

Time and the Static Image

Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0031819100056837 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 72 (280) ◽

pp. 175-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Robin Le Poidevin

Keyword(s):

Representational Content ◽

The State ◽

Traditional View ◽

Static Image ◽

Static Images ◽

Arrow Paradox ◽

State Of Affairs

Photographs, paintings, rigid sculptures: all these provide examples of static images. It is true that they change—photographs fade, paintings darken and sculptures crumble—but what change they undergo (unless very damaging) is irrelevant to their representational content. A static image is one that represents by virtue of properties which remain largely unchanged throughout its existence. Because of this defining feature, according to a long tradition in aesthetics, a static image can only represent an instantaneous moment, or to be more exact the state of affairs obtaining at that moment'. It cannot represent movement and the passage of time. This traditional view mirrors a much older one in metaphysics: that change is to be conceived of as a series of instantaneous states and hence that an interval of time is composed of extensionless moments. The metaphysical view has been involved in more controversy than its aesthetic counterpart. Aristotle identified it as one of the premises of Zeno's arrow paradox and Augustine employed it in his proof of the unreality of time.

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LOGROLLING, ARROW-PARADOX AND DECISION RULES -A GENERALIZATION

Kyklos ◽

10.1111/j.1467-6435.1974.tb01897.x ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 49-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Peter Bernholz

Keyword(s):

Decision Rules ◽

Arrow Paradox

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The Arrow Paradox with Fuzzy Preferences

10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7_5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 47-56

Author(s):

S. Subramanian

Keyword(s):

Fuzzy Preferences ◽

Arrow Paradox

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Applying the immobility theory to thoroughly solve the three Zeno’s paradoxes

10.31219/osf.io/xy2k4 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ninh Khac Son

Keyword(s):

Zeno's Paradoxes ◽

The Law ◽

Arrow Paradox ◽

The Universe

- Applying the law of conservation of time to solve the Achilles and the tortoise paradox.- Applying the smallest unit of time T_min in the universe to solve the Dichotomy paradox.- Applying the disappearing property of matter when moving to solve the Arrow paradox.

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Another Note on Zeno's Arrow

Phronesis ◽

10.1163/156852808x338328 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 53 (4-5) ◽

pp. 359-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ofra Magidor

Keyword(s):

Alternative Interpretation ◽

Adequate Response ◽

The Face ◽

Arrow Paradox

AbstractIn Physics VI.9 Aristotle addresses Zeno's four paradoxes of motion and amongst them the arrow paradox. In his brief remarks on the paradox, Aristotle suggests what he takes to be a solution to the paradox.In two famous papers, both called 'A note on Zeno's arrow', Gregory Vlastos and Jonathan Lear each suggest an interpretation of Aristotle's proposed solution to the arrow paradox. In this paper, I argue that these two interpretations are unsatisfactory, and suggest an alternative interpretation. In particular, I claim that what seems on the face of it to be Aristotle's solution to the paradox raises two puzzles to which my interpretation, as opposed to Lear's and Vlastos's, provides an adequate response.

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