Transition and Contradiction

Abstract

Due largely to. the contemporary interest in paraconsistent logic, the fourteenth-century incipit/desinit(begins/ceases) problem has recently been revived in new form.l Like Zeno's paradoxes of motion, to which it is closely related, this problem is easier to state than to resolve: is an object in motion or at rest at the instant of change? Consider the following possible answers to this question:(1) The object is at rest but not in motion.(2) The object is in motion but not at rest.(3) The object is neither at rest nor in motion. (4) The object is both at rest and in motion.