The Form of the Benardete Dichotomy.

Benardete presents a version of Zeno's dichotomy in which an infinite sequence of gods each intends to raise a barrier iff a traveller reaches the position where they intend to raise their barrier. In this paper, I demonstrate the abstract form of the Benardete Dichotomy. I show that the diagnosis b...

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Publicado en:British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 397 - 418
Autor principal: Shackel, Nicholas
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Publicado: University of Chicago Press Jun2005
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