Word: zeno
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...would be quick to point out the logical peculiarities of your plea. I hope-but do not expect-that some other department may contain an instructor in whom logic is conjoined with courage sufficient to demonstrate that the irony of your argument is comparable to that of the Eleatic Zeno, except for the fact that Zeno knew what he was doing...
...After reading your analogy between Nixon's plight and Zeno's paradox [Oct. 3], it occurred to me that Nixon has been like the kid walking up an escalator that's going down...
...Nixon said, "We need to have a middle course" between "instant integration" and "segregation forever," it seemed quite obvious to me that he was advocating the attainment of integration as quickly as could reasonably be expected; not necessarily instantaneous nor delaying it forever. The analogies made by TIME to "Zeno's paradox" and "the midpoint between Now and Forever" are indeed preposterous...
...There are those who want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned to never reach that goal...
...Historian Max Nomad believes that anarchists follow a "daydream of desperate romantics." Man's urge to do away with the apparatus that governs him is obviously almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder of the ancient Greek school of Stoic thought and anarchism's earliest forerunner, opposed Plato's ideal of state communism in favor of his own vision of a free community without government. Medieval Christianity was full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with...