Issue #47

Abstract: Attempts to solve Zeno’s riddle, formulated in the Arrow aporia, by means of private sciences, primarily mathematics, undertaken for 2.5 thousand years, have not yet led to success. The reason for this is that the most important event, thanks to which the flight of the arrow takes place, falls out of the field of view of these sciences. Indeed, its flight can be defined as the change in time of its position in space. But how is this change happening? Let us fix it in this place at the moment. A moment — and now she is no longer in this place. She’s gone! But immediately appears where she was not. Moreover, in a place closest to the previous one. And what does it mean — was and disappeared? How is the disappearance of a physical body possible? What happens to him at that moment? And the occurrence in a nearby place? She wasn’t here. But it appeared! How? Why? Of what? It would seem that these are “childish,” naive questions, but without answers to them it is impossible to explain the movement of the arrow. Mathematical logic, within the framework of which the search for a solution to the aporia has always been conducted before, is obviously not able to answer them. She cannot even indicate the “nearest place” to which, in order not to disrupt the continuity of her flight, the arrow moves. Mathematics allows you to describe the process of movement as accurately as you like, but not explain it. But dialectical logic is able to clearly answer these questions. It is capable because in nature every event is dialectical, and it just serves as a tool for analyzing the “internal mechanism” of an event. It is shown that dialectics is a logic of thinking, no less strict, accurate and evidential, subordinate to all the requirements of formal logic (due to which it is formalized) than mathematical logic. And the conclusions obtained on the basis of the analysis of Zeno’s aporia are actually true for understanding the nature of the movement taking place throughout the universe.