On some paradoxes of the infinite

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 42 (2):187-194 (1991)
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Abstract

In the paper below the authors describe three super-tasks. They show that although the abstract notion of a super-task may be, as Benacerraf suggested, a conceptual mismatch, the completion of the three super-tasks involved can be defined rather naturally, without leading to inconsistency, by means of a particular kinematical interpretation combined with a principle of continuity.

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Teunis Koetsier
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Zeno’s Paradoxes.Wesley Charles Salmon (ed.) - 1970 - Indianapolis, IN, USA: Bobbs-Merrill.
Tasks, super-tasks, and the modern eleatics.Paul Benacerraf - 1962 - Journal of Philosophy 59 (24):765-784.

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