A Simple Paradox [Philosophy]

Think you can walk from one side of the room to the other? Think again ;)
Some wonderfully simple yet mind-bending philosophy.

*Please note: It says in the video that this paradox is described by Aristotle, not that it is his paradox. It is one of Zeno's paradoxes described in Aristotle's Physics. However, I did intend to mention Zeno in the video but did not recall to in this take ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• philosophy
• paradox
• ancient
• greek
• greece
• arrow
• aristotle
• zeno
• philosophical
• mathematics
• infinity

[smslax43]

am i the only one who finds her voice sexy?

[noob5000000]

That's pretty dumb. The fucking arrow is fucking moving. If I stand up and walk to the other side of the room, I'm fucking moving.

Yo dawg, we heard you like halfway points so we put a halfway point in your halfway point. Shit like this isn't philosophy, this is just over-complicating simple matters to make the speaker feel more intelligent.

[ElmoStCarv]

@noob5000000 noob is right. this paradox is one of the principles of Calculus, fuck head. It's not that the speaker seems more intelligent; it's the speaker being more intelligent than your degenerate 21st century fuck-tard ass.No wait, you're right! Aristotle is an idiot. You know, being the father of fucking logic and all. Yeah, Aristotle is an idiot. I have to go commit suicide now that i know the world is full of fucking morons! btw, it was Zeno.Aristotle just commented in bk3 physics

[VicariousExtrospect]

...so basically it has to move at a non-constant / exponential rate so that it can move to one halfway point between a halfway point between a halfway point etc.

You do realize objects DON'T move at exponential rates? you don't fire the arrow, wait two years, then in half a second its at the target.

There is no paradox, it's just faulty logic.

[supersciz]

i used to bee able to move but then i took that arrow to the knee

[ratacatattack]

in order to reach the halfway "point" it must do so at a particular "point" in time. but what's a point in time? if durationless point then it cannot be considered to consist of or comprise time, and if not then it's a span of time and can be infinitely reduced. the problem is that time and space are mutually defined in a way that they both validate and negate each other. they're the same and yet different. this paradox of finite/infinity is everywhere: time, space, numbers, binary opposites...

[iPodTouchAngel]

The target must be a knee..

[hpobsessed21]

@VetGurl101 Yes! Nerdfighters forever and DFTBA!

[TenorCG]

I'm not sure i understood that...

[VetGurl101]

@hpobsessed21 Nerdfighter? 

[orestemontinaro]

It is the paradox of Zenone, in Italy we usually study Philosophy at the high school..

[JARMOPOWER]

Movement is change of place in relation to time, so without time you can't have motion. If you stop the time the arrow will be stopped as well because for motion you need time.