The Motionless Arrow, Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Paradox

        Aristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter 9 of Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study can be understood in such a way that it might not be 'next door to madness'. In this chapter, Aristotle interprets Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as 'missing the mark'. There are four premises for this argument, and in Aristotle's opinion, premise three can be rejected. He does not believe that time is composed of indivisible nows, which …

…on, and even though they may be wrong, they do not seem to be so inappropriate when you see where his argument leads, and where he wished it to go. He had another way of interpreting what he saw. Zeno had a valid argument, we would have to agree, but the soundness did 'miss the mark' by just a bit. But this only rings true if you are obliged to 'follow where the argument leads'.