Aristotle's Critique of Zeno

Aristotle critiqued Zeno’s paradoxes, which argue that motion is impossible because dividing space or time into infinite parts leads to contradictions. For example, Zeno’s “arrow paradox” suggests that an arrow in flight must be at rest at every instant, so motion is an illusion. Aristotle explained that these paradoxes misuse the idea of infinite divisions, which don’t actually inhibit movement because actual motion involves continuous change, not a series of fixed points. Essentially, Aristotle believed that infinity in divisibility is a concept, not a barrier to real-world motion, and that the paradoxes rely on flawed assumptions about how space and time work.