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    Supports→Postulating a smallest magnitude does not resolve Zeno's dichotomy paradox but instead generates a new motion paradox

    A theory that cannot assign determinate possibility or impossibility to transitional states fails to resolve Zeno's paradox and instead relocates unintelligibility from infinite division to inter-atomic gaps.

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    Key Terms

    Unintelligibility(The statement discusses whether certain religious ideas are unintelligible (hard to understand))
    The quality of being impossible to understand or make sense of; something that is unclear or incoherent.
    Zeno's paradox(historical/logical concept)
    A famous logical puzzle where Zeno argues that movement is impossible because you'd have to cross infinite points before reaching any destination, yet we clearly do move.
    determinate(Contrasted with determinables; taken to be independently posited in the causal/ontological economy)
    A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)
    infinite division(Zeno's argument that each of the many things has unlimited magnitude)
    The principle that for any part of a thing that is taken, there is always something further in front of it, such that division never terminates

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    inter-atomic gaps(in physics-based attempts to solve Zeno's paradox)
    The empty spaces between atoms—the smallest building blocks of matter.
    possibility/impossibility(in discussing what is logically allowed or forbidden)
    Whether something can or cannot potentially happen or exist.
    transitional states(in analyzing motion and change)
    The conditions or stages something passes through while changing from one state to another (like all the moments between 'at rest' and 'in motion').

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