Sunday 12 April 2020

Physics - Oxford World's Classics Aristotle, Robin Waterfield, David Bostock Paperback (08 May 2008) | English


 "[...] there are two senses in which length and time [...] are called ‘infinite’: they are called so either in respect of divisibility or in respect of their extremities. [...] So while a thing in a finite time cannot come in contact with things quantitatively infinite, it can come in contact with things infinite in respect of divisibility: [...]."

"Hence Zeno’s argument makes a false assumption in asserting that it is impossible for a thing [...] to come in contact with infinite things in a finite time." 

"[...] to the question whether it is possible to pass through an infinite number of units either of time or of distance we must reply that in a sense it is and in a sense it is not. If the units are actual, it is not possible: if they are potential, it is possible. [...] for though it is an accidental characteristic of the distance to be an infinite number of half-distances, this is not its real and essential character."

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