 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 654 páginas
...interval of a thousand feet: when Achilles has run these thousand feet, the tortoise will have got on a hundred; when Achilles has run those hundred, the...any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premisses " ever" does not mean any length of time: it means any number of subdivisions of time. It... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 páginas
...tortoise will have run a hundred, and when Achilles has run those hundred the tortoise will have got on ten, and so on for ever : therefore Achilles may run...any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premisses " ever" does not mean any length of time ; it means any number of subdivisions of time. It... | |
 | Portia Young - 1852 - 140 páginas
...feet, the tortoise would have got 100; when Achilles has got those 100, the tortoise will have run 10, and so on for ever ; therefore, Achilles may run for ever without overtaking the tortoise. Now, " for ever," in the conclusion, means for any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premise,... | |
 | 1852 - 132 páginas
...feet, the tortoise would have got 100 ; when Achilles has got those 100, the tortoise will have run 10, and so on for ever ; therefore, Achilles may run for ever without overtaking the tortoise. Now, " for ever," in the conclusion, means for any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premise,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 396 páginas
...on forever : therefore Achilles may run forever without overtaking the tortoise. Now the " forever" in the conclusion means, for any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premises, " forever" does not mean any length of time — it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 páginas
...interval of a thousand feet : when Achilles has run these thousand feet, the tortoise will have got on a hundred ; when Achilles has run those hundred, the...any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premisses " ever" does not mean any length of time : it means any number of subdivisions of time. It... | |
 | Stephen Henry Emmens (writer on logic.) - 1865 - 202 páginas
...interval of a thousand feet : when Achilles has run these thousand feet, the tortoise will have got on a hundred ; when Achilles has run those hundred, the tortoise, will have run ten ; therefore, Achilles may run for ever without overtaking the tortoise. " Now, the ' for ever ' in... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1871 - 894 páginas
...tortoise will have run a hundred, and when Achilles has run those hundred the tortoise will have got on ten, and so on for ever: therefore Achilles may run...any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premisses ' for ever' does not mean any length of time — it means any number of subdivisions of time.... | |
 | John William Draper - 1875 - 464 páginas
...tortoise will have run a hundred, and when Achilles has run these hundred the tortoise will have got on ten, and so on for ever; therefore Achilles may run for ever without overtaking the tortoise." Such were his arguments against the existence of motion; his proof of the existence of One, the indivisible... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1878 - 422 páginas
...tortoise will have run a hundred, and when Achilles has run those hundred the tortoise will have got on ten, and so on for ever ; therefore Achilles may run...any length of time that can be supposed ; but in the premisses " for ever " does not mean any length of time — it means any number of subdivisions of... | |
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Achilles run ten times as fast as the tortoise, yet if the tortoise has the start, Achilles will never overtake him. For suppose them to be at first separated by an interval of a thousand feet: when Achilles has run these thousand feet, the tortoise will... 
