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The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought - Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics (Hardcover)
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The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought - Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics (Hardcover)
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This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of
motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological
principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of
motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain
control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea
of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th
century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing
together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion
of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides,
the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and
logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be
present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who
also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible.
With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental
framework with which we conceptualise motion today.
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