Posted: Jul 11, 2011 4:23 pm
THWOTH wrote:Well no, he's a sophist, Zeno's paradox suits his discursive purpose only in as much as it shores his argument.
But how does it "shore up his argument"? It seems to me it does just the opposite. The thought experiments in Zeno's paradoxes lead to conclusions that, from empirical experience, we know to be false. Therefore it seems that that is an argument against Craig's using similar thought experiments, like Hilbert's hotel, to draw conclusions about the nature of physical reality.