On Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 1:48:16 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:43 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> Even if spacetime is "continuous", what motion is in reality is not >> resolved by a Cauchy-type of (ε, δ)-definition of limit* >> > > Why not? > > John K Clark > > >
How does *the arrow shot at a target *(in Zeno's Paradox) *compute* the truth of the forall-exists quantifier construct in the Caucy definition? Or what is computing the truth of that for the arrow? When one simulates the arrow shot at a target on a computer using a numerical calculus software package, there are only floating-point numbers, and the arrow "gets to the target" because the finite floating-point number resolution makes it so. - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
