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is to question one of the assumptions Zeno used in his paradoxes (particularly the Dichotomy), which is that between any two different points in space...

dictionary definition of dichotomy at Wiktionary Binary opposition Bipartite (disambiguation) Class (set theory) Dichotomy paradox Dilemma Law of excluded...

Denny's paradox: Surface-dwelling arthropods (such as the water strider) should not be able to propel themselves horizontally. Dichotomy paradox: To reach...

argued that the tortoise would always remain ahead of Achilles. Zeno's dichotomy paradox also states that to move a certain distance, you have to move half...

A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are...

Aristotle identified four paradoxes of motion as the most important. Each paradox has multiple names that it is known by. The dichotomy, the racetrack, or the...

affect does not suitably fall in the positive-negative symptom dichotomy. Paradoxical laughter and other inappropriate emotional expressions were defining...

film Spider also focuses on the complex. Ambivalence Coolidge effect Dichotomy Female Chauvinist Pigs Friend zone Gender norms in abstinence-only sex...

traced as far back as the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, whose Zeno's dichotomy paradox was the first mathematical concept to consider the relationship between...

The paradox of thrift (or paradox of saving) is a paradox of economics. The paradox states that an increase in autonomous saving leads to a decrease in...

exhausted" is notable for its resemblance to the Dichotomy paradox described by Zeno of Elea. Zeno's paradox takes the example of a runner on a finite race...

toward it, effectively preventing physical contact by invoking the dichotomy paradox. The Inmates of Green Dolphin Street Prison are convicted felons sentenced...

professors, Hardy and Grote, who argue about one of Zeno's Paradoxes, called The dichotomy paradox, where a frog wants to get up from a well, but each jump...

of conclusive knowing… At the heart, it is a story that celebrates dichotomy, paradox, duality and irony." The film also delves into the nature of relationships...

In macroeconomics, the classical dichotomy is the idea, attributed to classical and pre-Keynesian economics, that real and nominal variables can be analyzed...

rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language. Kripke writes that this paradox is "the most...

offers more opportunities for variable cooperation rather than a strict dichotomy of cooperation or defection, the continuous prisoner's dilemma may help...

most versions of secularity do not lead to irreligiosity. The idea of a dichotomy between religion and the secular originated in the European Enlightenment...

philosophy this type of argument is sometimes referred to as the "Zhuangzi paradox": He who dreams of drinking wine may weep when morning comes; he who dreams...

The law of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle create a dichotomy in "logical space", wherein the two parts are "mutually exclusive" and...