Barbara M. Sattler

Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought

ISBN: 978-1-108-80262-8
EAN: 9781108802628
Produktnummer: 35946171
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics

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This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical devel… Mehr