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Do Zeno's Arguments Challenge Aristotle's Account Of Motion?, Rose Cherubin
Do Zeno's Arguments Challenge Aristotle's Account Of Motion?, Rose Cherubin
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
What is the relationship between the arguments that Aristotle and Simplicius attribute to Zeno of Elea, and the account of motion that Aristotle presents in the Physics? Do the considerations that Aristotle raises in Physics Z.9 overcome the arguments about motion that he attributes to Zeno? Do they show the Zenonian arguments to be inapplicable or ill formed? Or do considerations that Zeno raises in the discussions attributed to him instead undermine Aristotle's account of motion? Do they undermine the possibility of physics as epistëmë? And why does Aristotle not treat Zeno's arguments about magnitude and plurality in his account …