Sentence examples for impossibility of motion from inspiring English sources

Zeno's paradoxes purport to prove the impossibility of motion.

But Zeno's arrow paradox is about the impossibility of motion, not the infinite divisibility of time (that's Achilles and the tortoise).

While he draws grand conclusions from such experiments, regarding the non-existence of free will and how we should organize and think about law and ethics, most reasonable peoples' response will inevitably be similar to that of Diogenes the cynic who, when faced with Zeno of Elea's watertight proof of the impossibility of motion, simply got up and walked.

In the second chapter of the MMK we find a long discussion of the impossibility of motion.

By positing indivisible bodies, the atomists were also thought to be answering Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion.

Melissus had argued from the logical impossibility of void to the impossibility of motion; the atomists apparently reasoned in reverse, arguing from the fact that motion exists to the necessity for void space to exist (DK 67A7).

He was frustrated by the impossibility of conveying motion with a still camera.

Pauli's exclusion principle requires that two fermions occupy different quantum states and the laws of thermodynamics show the impossibility of perpetual motion machines.

But the nonexistence of motion is an impossibility: for we have shown above that there must always be motion.

Here the role of the empirical principles is played by the statements of the impossibility of various kinds of perpetual motion machines.

Moreover, because of the impossibility to force a human demonstrator to violate the biological law of motion, the dot was the only stimulus used.