ABSTRACT

Zeno's four arguments against motion are known to us from Aristotle's discussion of them in Physics Z. The Greek commentators on Aristotle for once fail us: they do not reproduce any of Zeno's own words, and with one trivial exception they provide us with no information we cannot glean from Aristotle's text. The paradoxes were famous in antiquity, and they influenced philosophers other than Aristotle: it is odd, as well as unfortunate, that our knowledge of them is virtually confined to the brief and polemical reports in the Physics. 1