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[-] _____@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

While fun it just seems like something made up. How accurate is an anecdotal record from this time ? Why would anyone argue about "the existence of motion" what does that even mean

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

The one he was "arguing" against by walking away was Zeno discussing his paradox about having to go halfway to a target, then halfway again, etc., so therefore you could never truly get there. Whether it happened or not is another question, but given Diogenes seemed to be the anti-philosopher of many names, if he didn't, then had he been there and heard it he would have.

Or he might have done something a bit more interesting than leaving.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Records of events in Greece past the 5th century BCE are about as reliable as any other bit of history. Diogenes was a philosopher famous for being something of a wit and an iconoclast, so this would have been very in-character for him to do.

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