smh said:
OneKeg said:
Georgia truly has been the Zeno's Paradox of vote counts.
thanks for the obscure mention OneKeg (new to me)..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
Quote:
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in pluralityand change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on Plato'sParmenides (128ad), that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides' view. Thus Plato has Zeno say the purpose of the paradoxes "is to show that their hypothesis that existences are many, if properly followed up, leads to still more absurd results than the hypothesis that they are one."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#cite_note-1][1][/url] Plato has Socrates claim that Zeno and Parmenides were essentially arguing exactly the same point.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#cite_note-2][2][/url]
Some of Zeno's nine surviving paradoxes (preserved in Aristotle's Physics[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#cite_note-aristotle-3][3][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#cite_note-4][4][/url] and Simplicius's commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another. Aristotle offered a refutation of some of them.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#cite_note-aristotle-3][3][/url] Three of the strongest and most famousthat of Achilles and the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flightare presented in detail below.
# gob ears
Ha right - but what I meant specifically by Zeno's election (in GA):
One of Zeno's paradoxes is that if you set out to get somewhere, you can never get there. Because first you have to get halfway there. Then of the remaining distance you have to cover half of that. Then half of the remaining distance and so on.
Or if you are trying to catch someone slower than you, you can never do it. Because first you have to get to where they are now. But by then they've moved, so you have to get to where they have moved to, but by then they've moved again and so on.
That's what Georgia felt like all last night.
Glad Biden is ahead now by a tiny margin at least. GA will go to recount along with WI (if Trump forces it which of course he will).
But I am hoping:
- PA can get out of recount territory (I think it will)
- NV stays out of recount territory (I think it will)
- AZ is a win for Biden (I think it will be) and stays out of recount territory (not sure)
Obviously Biden doesn't need all these states, but the bigger buffer, the better with all the shenanigans that may happen in the next couple months.
