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On which basis do you decide which path is right and which is not?
Are Zeno's paradoxes also "real"?
No. Zeno paradoxes aren't real. Why? You have to have an axiomatic system and inside this system you must be able to prove A & NOT A. Then and only then, there is a paradox.
Then EVERY statement is provable inside this axiomatic system and the system is useless.
Zeno had only "paradoxes". Had he formulated one of his paradoxes inside geometry, that would be something! But he didn't. All Zeno had was his intuition that "you can't do infinite number of steps in a finite time".
For the Russell's paradox inside the Naive Set Theory, that i... (read more)