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Parmenides's doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
Someone who was around when Zeno lived should have proposed an experiment.
Ask Zeno to have a gun fired at him and prove for sure that motion is an illusion. :-)
It seems to me that Zeno's paradoxs were based on the theory that time could be broken into points, in which things were still, and not moving...the same with space. It assumes a durationless period of time, for instance. Of course, there is no such thing as a durationaless moment of time, thus Zeno is proved wrong. It is interesting to read and think about though.
A duration-less moment is Impossible?
Hmmm... Well if time is just a dimension, and space-time a rational construct then it just comes down to taking a big enough stick and whacking reality just right.
If we compress space-time sufficiently, it'll collapse dimension by dimension, time likely being the first (event horizon), giving you your eternal duration-less moment.
The trick, I'd guess, is squeezing just hard enough and no harder.
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In their offices, time does not pass at all.
