This paper is published in Volume 3, Issue 7, 2018
Area
Philosophy
Author
Dr. Sudipta Chattopadhyay
Org/Univ
Malda Women's College, Malda, West Bengal, India
Pub. Date
17 July, 2018
Paper ID
V3I7-1171
Publisher
Keywords
Zeno's view of motion, Parmenides

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Dr. Sudipta Chattopadhyay. A modern interpretation on Zeno’s view of motion, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARnD.com.

APA
Dr. Sudipta Chattopadhyay (2018). A modern interpretation on Zeno’s view of motion. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 3(7) www.IJARnD.com.

MLA
Dr. Sudipta Chattopadhyay. "A modern interpretation on Zeno’s view of motion." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 3.7 (2018). www.IJARnD.com.

Abstract

To grasp the concept of motion, it is necessary to make a new look towards Zeno’s reaction on a motion. Zeno of Elea (about 489 BC), is the favorite disciple of Parmenides (about 514 BC). Zeno devotes himself in refuting the views of the opponents of Parmenides. Arguments against the possibility of motion, is first found in 'The Dialectic of Zeno'. The ancient Greek philosophers were confused to think about space, time and motion. Zeno is the first who deeply thinks about these. His arguments, generally known as his paradoxes, seem to show that motion is simply an illusion which is not possible in any circumstances. Zeno’s arguments are based upon the argument which may be called the antinomy (i.e., a proof that since two contradictory propositions equally follow from a given assumption that must be false) of infinite divisibility. But in our times, we know that the fallacies of his proofs, the confusion of the infinite divisibility of space and time with infinite dividedness, he does not notice himself. He argues from the geometrical line to the actual line. Indeed, a geometrical point has no magnitude and a geometrical line is infinitely divisible. But in everyday life the movement between any distance, is not infinitely divisible, nor any observed time which we live through as short or long, is infinitely divisible into moments. Zeno confused an analytic proposition with a synthetic proposition. An analytic proposition does not require any observation to confirm or disconfirm its truth while a synthetic proposition can be true if it corresponds to an actual state of affairs. A distance or time is infinitely divisible, is only an analytic proposition but actual distance traversed in same observed time is not infinitely divisible. In fact, without motion our usual life would be stopped. Sun, moon, stars, planets and other stars cannot move without motion. If motion is not accepted then astronomy would be in vein. Even we cannot speak and write without the movement of our vocabulary organs and that of fingers respectively. So, the existence of motion has to accept in usual life, in scientific research and in all other aspects of life.
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