Temporal dimension of new-Zeno paradoxes
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https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-85-88Keywords:
Zeno sequence, limit of a sequence, thought experiment, new-Zeno paradox, spaceship paradox, prediction, reconstructionAbstract
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e. strictly increasing or strictly decreasing denumerable sequences with limits. The paper focuses on the space ship paradox formulated by José Benardete, and some of its varieties formulated by Bas van Fraassen and Pérez Laraudogoitia. It is shown that paradoxes of this sort demonstrate a certain symmetry with respect to predictability and reconstructibility of events under consideration.
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