Eleatica
From January 15 to 18, 2009, the yearly Eleatica-Symposium organized under the scientific supervision of Livio Rossetti took place at the Alario Foundation in Ascea (Salerno-Italy), close to the ruins of ancient Hyele/Elea. The conference was held by Jonathan Barnes (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), w...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
2012
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/cpa/article/view/17188 |
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| Summary: | From January 15 to 18, 2009, the yearly Eleatica-Symposium organized under the scientific supervision of Livio Rossetti took place at the Alario Foundation in Ascea (Salerno-Italy), close to the ruins of ancient Hyele/Elea. The conference was held by Jonathan Barnes (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), who spoke on Zeno and the Infinite. In truly Eleatic style he tackled Zeno’s paradoxes in a paradoxical way, maintaining the following three points: 1) if we want to understand Zeno’s paradoxes we can rely only on physics, 2) mathematics is therefore not able to solve these paradoxes; 3) from a general logical viewpoint it is not true that Zeno uses the term “infinite” as if it were the name of a number. |
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| ISSN: | 2177-5850 |
