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Zeno and Naagaarjuna on motion(6)

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     indivisible. Either way the key to understanding this
     Paradox  lies in understanding  that Zeno is not here
     assuming the atomicity  of empty space or empty time;
     these concepts  were foreign  to the ancient  Greeks,
     who thought


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     instead     in     terms     of     the
     space-which-something-occupies,     or     the
     time-in-which-something-occurs. What is assumed  here
     is,   for   example.   the   atomicity   of   the
     space-which-something-occupies.   and  therefore  the
     atomicity of that which occupies the space, as well.
      The interpretation  of this Paradox  turns on the
     phrase, "half  a given time is equal  to double  that
     time."  It should  be borne  in mind that the wording
     here  is Aristotle's, not Zeno's, and that  Aristotle
     clearly misunderstands  this Paradox.  He thinks that
     Zeno  reasons   fallaciously   that  a  given  object
     traveling  at a given  speed  will pass two identical
     objects, one stationary  and one itself in motion, in
     the same amount  of time.  Modern  exponents  of this
     same  interpretation  express  it  differently: Zeno,
     they say, is misled  by his ignorance  of the concept
     of  relative  velocity.  Whichever  way  the  alleged
     fallacy is stated, Zeno is not foolish enough to have
     committed it. He is not saying that (B) will pass (A)
     (stationary) and (C) (moving at the same speed as (B)
     but in the opposite  direction) in the same amount of
     time;  instead  he is  pointing  out  that, if (B) is
     traveling  at, for example, a speed  of one minim  of
     space  per minim  of time, it will pass one minim  of
     (A) in one minim  of time, but it will pass one minim
     of (C) in half  a minim  of time, thus  dividing  the
     indivisible minim, which is impossible.  The issue of
     relative velocity is irrelevant and anachronous.
      Not  one  of  these  Paradoxes  is, by  itself, a
     convincing  argument  against  motion, but each, when
     taken  to include  its proper  assumptions  about the
     nature  of space  and  time, neatly  disposes  of one
     possible  account  of the  universe  in which  motion
     occurs.  (Of course, some  of these  arguments  would
     serve for more than one case, but it is reasonable to
     assume  that  four  were  included  for  the sake  of