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A Look at the Staccato Run

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This paper considers a recent criticism of the physical possibility of supertasks which involves Achilles’s staccato run. It is held that the criticism fails and that the underlying fallacy can be linked with interesting developments in the modern literature on physical supertasks.

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  1. Dept. de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia Fac. de Filología, Universidad de País Vasco, c/Paseo de la Universidad, 5, O1006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    J. P. Laraudogoitia

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Laraudogoitia, J.P. A Look at the Staccato Run. Synthese 148, 433–441 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-004-6238-y

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