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Zeno's paradoxes
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Zeno’s paradoxes
four philosophical arguments purporting to show the impossibility of motion. [Gk. Phil.: NCE, 3043]
See : Paradox


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The Prozorov sisters' much desired and eternally thwarted journey to Moscow gleams through Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters like Zeno's arrow in reverse: as time goes by, the distance between the sisters and their dream city increases, though in act 1 they appear to be on the verge of arriving, and though they would arrive if it were possible to dose a gap with pure longing.
 
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