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    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes
    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes
    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes
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    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes

    By John Northern

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    Zeno's paradoxes have mystified scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and laymen for nearly two thousand five hundred years. Now, you can read the solution to Zeno's paradoxes in this short paper.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Northern
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781311855817
    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes
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    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes - John Northern

    Solving Zeno's Paradoxes

    Second Edition

    Published by John Northern at Smashwords

    Copyright 10/15/2014 by John Northern

    Truth is found at that juncture in the mind where science, philosophy, and religion work hand in hand. Science, philosophy, and religion raise questions and promote ideas and theories, and then it is the responsibility of science and philosophy to prove or disprove those ideas and theories.

    Dr. John Northern

    Zeno was a Greek philosopher who lived between the years of 490 B.C. and 430 B.C. His birth predated Socrates' birth (470 B.C.), Plato's (427 B.C.), and Aristotle's (384 B.C.). These three famous philosophers, who were born after Zeno, tried to solve Zeno's paradoxes without success.

    There is very little known about Zeno's book or books and his paradoxes. (It is not known if he had written more than one book.) Proclus, an ancient Greek philosopher, born in the year 412, is one of the philosophers who has brought forth Zeno's paradoxes to the twenty-first century. Proclus stated that in Zeno's book

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