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    There is more at stake in Zeno's Achilles paradox than th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The argument for theological fatalism has more at stake than just the coherence of libertarian theism.

    There is more at stake in Zeno's Achilles paradox than the fleetness of Achilles and the torpidity of tortoises; discovering facts about Achilles or the tortoise would not address the real issues presented by Zeno's argument.

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    The real issues presented by Zeno's argument(contrasted with merely discovering facts about the runners)
    The deeper philosophical problems Zeno's paradox reveals—not just about whether Achilles wins the race, but about fundamental questions like whether motion and infinity are actually possible.
    Torpidity(describing the tortoise's slowness)
    The state of being slow, sluggish, or lacking energy in movement.
    Zeno(the philosopher behind the paradox)
    An ancient Greek philosopher (around 490-430 BCE) famous for creating puzzles and paradoxes that challenge our everyday understanding of motion, space, and time.

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    Zeno's Achilles Paradox(the main subject of the statement)
    An ancient Greek puzzle where the super-fast runner Achilles can never catch a slow tortoise because by the time Achilles reaches where the tortoise was, the tortoise has moved ahead—and this keeps happening infinitely.
    paradox(R. M. Sainsbury's definition, presented as a target of criticism)
    An apparently unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises

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    There’s more at stake here than the coherence of libertarian theism, as evidenced by the many non-libertarians and non-theists who have contributed to the debate. A comparison might be helpful. There’s more at stake in Zeno’s Achilles paradox than the fleetness of Achilles and the torpidity of tortoises. If that’s all there was to it, the discovery that Achilles was actually a quadraplegic, or that the tortoises of ancient Greece were as fast as jack rabbits, would resolve the puzzle. But that would simply exempt Achilles and/or the tortoise from complicity in the problem; it would do nothing ...

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