Write an essay of about 3 pages, or 750 words. (Printed in double-spaced format.) Your essay is due on Friday, February 1, 2019, 12:00 noon. Structure your essay in response to the specific questions below. Your TA will instruct you on how to turn in your essay (in electronic or hard copy, etc.). First: What is a paradox, i.e., a strict (logical) paradox? What is a “paradoxical” proposition, or philosophical “puzzle”? How does a strict paradox differ from such a puzzle? Second: By way of example, what is Zeno’s paradox of motion? Explain how this particular paradox is formulated. Third: By way of philosophical critique: What do you make of Zeno’s paradox of motion? Is there a true paradox in the phenomenon of motion itself? Or in the nature of space, or in the nature of time: given that motion is defined as change in spatial location over time? Is Zeno’s paradox arguably solved (or resolved or dissolved) by drawing on more recent ideas from mathematics or philosophy?
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