Stadium (Zeno's paradox)

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Zeno's paradox ancient Greek philosophical concept philosophical paradox thought experiment

Stadium (Zeno's paradox) is one of Zeno of Elea’s ancient thought experiments that challenges the coherence of motion and time by analyzing the relative movement of rows of objects in a stadium.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Zeno's paradox ⓘ ancient Greek philosophical concept ⓘ philosophical paradox ⓘ thought experiment ⓘ
describedIn	Aristotle's Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle's Physics, Book VI NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	The Moving Rows NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stadium paradox NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAuthor	Zeno of Elea NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCulturalContext	ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ
hasHistoricalPeriod	5th century BCE ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	later discussions of the continuum in mathematics ⓘ philosophical debates about motion and change ⓘ philosophical debates about the nature of time ⓘ
hasKeyIdea	assumptions about indivisible time units create contradictions ⓘ motion over discrete time units leads to paradoxical results ⓘ relative motion can yield contradictory measures of speed and time ⓘ the same motion can appear to take different times relative to different reference frames ⓘ
hasModernInterpretation	a challenge to naive conceptions of time and motion ⓘ a problem about discrete versus continuous models of time ⓘ an early exploration of relative velocity ⓘ
hasPhilosophicalDomain	metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of motion ⓘ philosophy of space ⓘ philosophy of time ⓘ
hasPhilosophicalTradition	Eleatic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPreservation	known primarily through Aristotle's report ⓘ
hasPurpose	to challenge the coherence of motion ⓘ to challenge the coherence of time ⓘ to defend Parmenides' doctrine of the unreality of change ⓘ
hasSourceLanguage	ancient Greek ⓘ
involves	comparison of speeds ⓘ discrete time intervals ⓘ equal-sized bodies ⓘ relative motion ⓘ rows of moving objects ⓘ simultaneity ⓘ uniform motion ⓘ
relatedTo	Achilles and the Tortoise NERFINISHED ⓘ Arrow paradox NERFINISHED ⓘ Dichotomy paradox NERFINISHED ⓘ Parmenides' argument against change ⓘ concept of continuity ⓘ concept of discrete time ⓘ concept of infinite divisibility ⓘ
usesSetting	a stadium ⓘ

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