1) If a man shot an arrow at a target, and every second of travel the arrow went 1/2 way to the target (1/2 of the distance it had left to go), how long would it take the arrow to reach the target?
2) If a man had a boat, and as the boat began to wear out, he replaced each worn out part with a brand new part until at last teh entire boat was replaced with new parts and all the original parts were gone, then would his boat be the same boat he had in the first place? At what point could you say he had a different boat and why? What if he had licensed the original boat, would he then have to re-license the boat at some point? If someone asked him how long he'd had his boat, what would he say?
Other teachings of Zeno were that is was foolish to try to change things from the way they were to the way we would like them to be. He believed we should just accept things as they are. These were the beliefs of the Stoics. I think that this might be true about some things, but others, like war, or poverty, or other problems should be changed and not just accepted. I think it is important to accept some aspects of life the way they are. But we should always strive to better the bad things of life. That way everyone is able to bask in the glory of the world God gave us.
1) The arrow would never reach the target, it would always be "half way" there.
ReplyDelete2) As the repairs become part of the original boat, can you actually say the boat has been completely replaced? It make take years for the replacements to take place, therefore one new board becomes part of the old board, which then, in and of themselves, become one complete board and there is no recognition of what was old and what is new. Unless he has changed the design as he goes along, I think the boat is the same boat. How would you know which parts were "old" and which were "new" as years went on?
My answers are:
ReplyDelete1)The arrow will never reach the target due to the fact that it will always go 1/2 the distance and never get there because all numbers can be divided into two.
2) The boat would not be what he had in the first place because none of the parts are the same. I would say he had a different boat once he changed out one of the worn out parts. I would say he had the boat since he bought it.