Zeno's Paradoxes
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Zeno's Paradoxes of Infinity
Zeno was one of the first philosophers ever to deal with the concept of infinity. Most of his paradoxes come from the problems of trying to deal with infinity in a finite world. Zeno had some others, but they're not as interesting for the purpose of this episode. From a mathematical perspective, most of Zeno's paradoxes have been explainable since the advent of calculus.
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