Full text of tortoise and rabbit race

One day, the rabbit and the tortoise raced. The rabbit laughed at the tortoise for crawling slowly, and the tortoise said that he would win one day. The rabbit said, let's start the game now. The rabbit ran quickly and the tortoise crawled desperately. Soon, the rabbit and the tortoise are far away.

Rabbit thinks this game is too simple. It needs to sleep for a while, thinking that even if it wakes up, the tortoise may not be able to catch up with it. On the other hand, the tortoise has been crawling. When the rabbit woke up, the tortoise had reached the finish line.

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Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. ? Do things in a down-to-earth manner, don't give up halfway, and you will succeed.

Zhi Nuo, a famous ancient Greek philosopher, did ask such a question and thought that "Achilles could not catch up with the tortoise". Achilles is the fastest fast leg in Greece. It is said that after hector, the general in the Trojan War, killed Patrockler, Achilles stabbed hector, who was defeated and fled, to avenge his friend.

It is such a "fast tortoise", but Zhi Nuo thinks he can't catch up with the tortoise. Zhi Nuo suggested that the tortoise came first, and Achilles had to reach the starting point of the tortoise before he could catch up with it. When he caught up with the tortoise, it had been crawling for a long time.

So Achilles had to catch up with this road again, when the tortoise climbed forward for a while. In this way, he kept chasing. Although the distance is getting closer and closer, Achilles still can't catch up with the tortoise.

Aristotle once brilliantly analyzed Zhi Nuo's argument. He said: "It is wrong to think that the leader in sports can't catch up, because it can't catch up when it is ahead, but if it is allowed to cross the prescribed limited distance, it can also be caught up."

Aristotle pointed out a key problem of Zhi Nuo's viewpoint, that is, he first gave a premise that the fastest distance should not exceed the specified limited distance. In fact, the fastest can cross a limited distance, thus surpassing the slowest.

Obviously, Zhi Nuo only recognized two different time and space points that were separated from each other, but denied the mutual connection between them, thus denying the authenticity of the movement. This undoubtedly emphasizes the infinite separability of time and space one-sidedly, which is a metaphysical view.

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