Analysis 1 | Infimum, Supremum, and Axiom of Completeness - 1870s (1.3)
The edges we all know I guess everybody that has a little curious have met with Zeno. It is unclear but generally thought that Zeno paradoxes have been developed to support the Parmenides’ doctrins by Zeno of Elea. Do not worry we will not talk about neither Parmenides nor his absurd motion doctrins. By the way he said that “motion is nothing but an illusion”. However, we will use Dichotomy paradox to address the topics infimum and supremum. Dichotomy paradox basically states that to travel any finite distance, you must complete infinite number of tasks using your finite amount of time, which is a paradox since there’s an infinite number of tasks corresponds to finite time, the journey can never be completed. Here is the process that Zeno followed: first decide a goal. Second go halfway of it and then go half of the remaining distance, and then repeat the process. Having to reach a halfway point goes on infinitely. ...