Laudate_Dominum Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 [quote name='phatcatholic' post='1175170' date='Jan 24 2007, 08:47 PM'] thank you next question: what is Eleatic philosophy? [/quote] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleatic_school_of_philosophy"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleatic_school_of_philosophy[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JeffCR07 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 ah, I love it when wikipedia saves me from my lack of ability to teach! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 [quote name='JeffCR07' post='1176059' date='Jan 25 2007, 05:39 PM'] ah, I love it when wikipedia saves me from my lack of ability to teach! [/quote] haha, ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franimus Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Technically, a point takes up no space (or an infinitely small amount of space, so if you start at one point, you really aren't starting anywhere. A line is a series of infinitely many points, which is how I arrived at the above conclusion. Also, to refute Xeno's paradox, I could merely argue that it takes an infinately small amount of time to traverse from one point to the next, so that's an infinitely small amount of time to traverse an infinite amount of points... which comes out to a regular amount of time to traverse a regular distance. (infinity * close to zero = well, could be anything, really, but it's less than infinity (since close to zero < 1) and greater than zero) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Franimus, I don't get your sig..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franimus Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 it's from homestarrunner.com, one of the strong bad emails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Oh man, I want this thread to live. I think I owe Jeff a response.. I'll try to post soon (I've been super busy with everything). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JeffCR07 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 lol, hey man I'm writing my honors thesis so trust me, I understand about not having time to post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Jeff, I know we're both busy, but I thought of something that would be really fun (IMHO). What if I argue in favor of Eleatic philosophy? I can perhaps become a temporary neo-Eleatic, and you can do whatever you want and we'll debate the issues on this thread? I was just thinking earlier of some arguments in favor of an Eleatic type monism and I think it could be fun to test things out. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JeffCR07 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 lol, I think its a great idea. Did I ever tell you I'm thinking about getting a shirt made that says "I heart Parmenides"? I think I'll take on a Perapatetic approach to arguing against you. Either that [i]or[/i] if you want I could try to respond the way Heraclitus would, which might get fun given the fact that they represent radically opposing viewpoints. So take you pick, does Parmenides want to fight Aristotle or Heraclitus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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