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    Moving parts within an extended universe are impossible — Carmelics
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    Moving parts within an extended universe are impossible

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    • Zeno's paradox demonstrates the impossibility of motion in an extended universe
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    • 1.Aristotle's distinction between potential and actual infinity dissolves Zeno's paradoxes without denying motion.
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    • 2.A supertask traversing infinite divisions is completable if the series converges to a finite sum, as in Cauchy's formalization.
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    • 3.Therefore Zeno's paradox shows only that naive infinity concepts are confused, not that motion itself is impossible.
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    • 1.Newton's and Leibniz's calculus provides a rigorous mathematical framework in which instantaneous velocity and continuous motion are coherently defined.
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    • 2.Empirical science routinely describes and predicts motion with precision, providing strong defeasible evidence that motion is actual rather than impossible.
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    This begins the more purely metaphysical part of Collier’s argument: that to be visible is to be in the mind we can consider an epistemological premise, but then he argues that nothing can be both visible and invisible at the same time, which is of course quite true independently of epistemology. A further argument he makes is that since God can give created minds any ideas directly, it would be needless for him to give us our ideas indirectly, by creating independent objects to cause ideas in u
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