Leon, Antonio (2008) Criticism of Benacerraf's criticism of modern eleatics. [Preprint]

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Abstract

I analyze here Benacerraf's criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of w-supertasks. Although Benacerraf's criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson's lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that compromises the formal consistency of the w-ordering involved in all w-supertasks.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Leon, Antonio
Keywords:	Supertask, Thomson lamp, w-order, axiom of infinity
Subjects:	General Issues > Thought Experiments Specific Sciences > Mathematics
Depositing User:	Antonio Leon
Date Deposited:	19 Apr 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	3995
Subjects:	General Issues > Thought Experiments Specific Sciences > Mathematics
Date:	April 2008
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3995

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