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A Walk in the Neighborhood

In: 3.1416 And All That

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  • Philip J. Davis
  • William G. Chinn

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AFTER HANGING up a picture one day, I stepped back clear across the room to see whether it hung straight or not. I had no sooner reached the other side when the shade of Aristotle tapped me on the shoulder and asked, “How could you possibly do that?” I tried to explain that I wanted to see how the picture hangs, but the shade interrupted, “That is not the point at all; hasn’t it been demonstrated that you cannot walk across the room?” Only then did I realize that the shade of Aristotle had in mind one of the arguments of Zeno of Elea, a Greek philosopher who lived about 485 B.C.

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  • Philip J. Davis & William G. Chinn, 1985. "A Walk in the Neighborhood," Springer Books, in: 3.1416 And All That, chapter 17, pages 123-130, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4615-8519-0_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_17
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