I got into an argument with a friend who says logic and reason alone cannot determine the truth, and that we need emotions too. He says that Zeno’s Paradox is proof of the shortcomings of math/physics in determining the nature of reality. Is he right about this? I thought math/physics are the holy grails for understanding the nature of the universe.
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Your friend is either naive or intellectually dishonest, probably both. He thinks his ability to reason is more powerful than observed reality, and that’s patently false. There are multiple infinities (see Georg Cantor and Set Theory), and the important facet here is that they can be categorized as either convergent or divergent. Cauchy provided us with a formula for determining whether a series converges or diverges. In conclusion: an infinite series can converge on a finite number. To trivialize this as “merely a theory” is overly reductive, that no mathematician or physicist would make of their entire respective fields.
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