"What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief allegorical dialogue on the foundations...

can be infinitely subdivided, implying Achilles would require an infinite number of steps to catch the tortoise. These paradoxes have stirred extensive...

Achilles and the Tortoise are a pair of characters that appear in Zeno's paradoxes. Achilles and the Tortoise may also refer to: "What the Tortoise Said...

(1895). "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". Mind. IV (14): 278–280. doi:10.1093/mind/IV.14.278. Blackburn, S. (1995). "Practical Tortoise Raising"....

called "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", as well as later attempts by Bertrand Russell and Peter Winch to resolve the paradox introduced in the dialogue...

in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the first two dialogues, and later ones introduce new characters such as the Crab...

poem "Motion" (1825). The phrase appears early in Lewis Carroll's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", where Achilles uses it to accentuate that he was...

arrow never reaches its target or that a speedy runner cannot catch up to a tortoise with a small head-start. A paradox that is in neither class may be an...

(1877) – Charles Darwin "What is an Emotion?" (1884) – William James "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" (1895) – Lewis Carroll "The Refutation of Idealism"...

between "swift-footed" Achilles and a tortoise, by which he attempted to show that Achilles could not catch up to a tortoise with a head start, and therefore...

Recursion Regress argument The Unreality of Time § The contradiction of the A-series Third man argument What the Tortoise Said to Achilles Zeno's paradoxes Cameron...

parties to coexist in peace Stoic logic – System of propositional logic developed by the Stoic philosophers What the Tortoise Said to Achilles – Allegorical...

Tortoise Said to Achilles Minsky, Marvin (1986). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 52. ISBN 0-671-60740-5. Klein, Gary (2001). "The Fiction...

epistemologyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" – Allegorical dialogue by Lewis Carroll Dogmatismus – unendlicher...

This is a list of fictional turtles, tortoises, and terrapins from literature, movies and other elements of popular culture. Post turtle Ograbme Cultural...

Carroll's dialogue "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles" demonstrates that the attempt to make every inference fully complete can lead to an infinite regression...

Termination analysis Thought experiment What the Tortoise Said to Achilles Zero-knowledge proof Bill Casselman. "One of the Oldest Extant Diagrams from Euclid"...

disproved" leads to paradoxical consequences. Not to be confused with the Barber paradox. What the Tortoise Said to Achilles: If a presumption needs to be made...

runner such as Achilles can never catch up to a slow runner, such as a tortoise. Every time Achilles goes to where the tortoise was, the tortoise will have...

Turtles all the way down – Statement of infinite regress What the Tortoise Said to Achilles – Allegorical dialogue by Lewis Carroll "Foundationalist Theories...

Science? What Is Your Dangerous Idea? What should then be done O people of the East What the Tortoise Said to Achilles What We Believe But Cannot Prove Wheel...

including Charles Lutwidge, were born here. The living was not a wealthy one and Dodgson ran a school in the village to supplement his income. In 1836 he was...

principle -- Warnier/Orr diagram -- Well-formed formula -- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles -- Willard Van Orman Quine -- William Kneale -- Window operator...

The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural...

this second position, the tortoise is at a third position, and so on. Zeno concluded that Achilles could never reach the tortoise, and thus that movement...

Analysis of Existence. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1956 What Achilles should have said to the Tortoise. Ratio, 1960 On some paradoxes. Analytical Philosophy...

for the last time, visiting the city of Gela, where he died in 456 or 455 BC. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped...

autobiographical film Glory to the Filmmaker! (appearing as Beat Takeshi), and a third in 2008, titled Achilles and the Tortoise. In between these films, Kitano...

from Achilles, he also tricked Achilles by disguising himself as a Trojan warrior and driving him away from the gates. He foiled Achilles' attempt to mutilate...

Adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise Taking Place in Sundry Spots of the Globe", which they begin to read, the Tortoise taking the part of the Tortoise, and...