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Description: Introduced by Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia from the University of the Basque Country.
Supertasks (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Tue Jun 29, 1999; substantive revision Wed Nov 11, 2009 Supertasks have posed problems for philosophy since the time of Zeno of Elea. The term ‘supertask’ is new but it designates an idea already present in the formulation of the old motion paradoxes of Zeno, namely the idea of an infinite number of actions performed in a finite amount of time. The main problem lies in deciding what follows from the performance of a supertask. Some philosophers have claimed that what follows is a contradiction and that supertasks are, therefore, logically impossible. Others have denied this conclusion, and hold that the study of supertasks can help us improve our understanding of the physical world, or even our theories about it.
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