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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Zeno & Infinity
Pivotal moments in one’s intellectual development come unexpectedly. For me the key moment arrived in 9th grade English class when Miss Blumenstock gave a brief run-down of Zeno’s “theory of motion” [see footnote] and asked us to write a paper … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmological, Existence Arguments, Naturalism
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