Zeno of Elea (fl. mid5th century B.C.) was a philosopher notorious for his logical puzzles and paradoxes, which he employed to attack commonsense ideas, such as belief in the existence in various entities in the universe (pluralism) and that things can move. In this video, Dr. Foxwede details the very first two puzzles that Zeno put forward, which deny motion with some surprisingly compelling reasoning that still troubles modern philosophers to this very day.

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