Essay Archive - The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle's Thoughts on Zeno's Arror Argument
The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle's Thoughts on Zeno's Arror Argument
Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter
9 of Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study can be understood in such a way that it
might not be "next door to madness". In this chapter, Aristotle interprets
Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as "missing the mark". There are four
premises for this argument, and in Aristotle's opinion, premise three can be
rejected. He does not believe that time is composed of indivisible nows, which
he proves with laws of science. However, ....
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