 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 654 pages
...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 - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...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 - Logic - 1852 - 140 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Philosophers - 1857 - 396 pages
...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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...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.) - Logic - 1865 - 202 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1871 - 894 pages
...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 - Europe - 1875 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Edward Plumptre - 1878 - 422 pages
...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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