Zenonian arguments in quantum mechanics

László Ropolyi

Peter Szegedi

pp. 253-256

in: Daniel Greenberger, Anton Zeilinger (eds), Epistemological and experimental perspectives on quantum physics, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

Zeno's Dichotomy aporia says: "Motion is impossible, because an object in motion must reach the half-way point before it gets to the end (Telos)". In the recent philosophical literature there are several kinds of interpretations: negative and positive dialectics, atomism, radical empiricism, finitism, infinitism, indefinitism, etc. The scientific reflections on the paradoxes time to time produce different types of "resolutions" of these problems.[1] Most of these treatments use some kind of measure concept which can be questioned.[2] Instead of resolution, we suggest to apply Zeno's results which can be explored by some kind of interpretation.