What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
"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 of logic. The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles",[1] written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind,[1] is a brief allegorical dialogue on the foundations of logic.[1] The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion,[2] in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.[1] Summary of…
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