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PerfectSociety OP wrote

tell me more, i've only started reading about dialetheism and stuff.

Same.

isn't the sum of infinite zeros still zero?

So that's the question at hand. The Arrow Paradox involves looking at instants of time, i.e. when the interval of time is 0 rather than some incredibly small number like Planck time. At a particular instant in time, the Arrow does not traverse any distance. So the problem that the paradox brings forth is that if at each instant in time the distance traversed is 0, then how can it be that when you add the distances traversed from all the instants together you get some non-zero answer? (This is basically your question.)

I've been told by another person that measure theory resolves this, because we can prove in math that a line segment is comprised of an infinite number of points and each point has 0 length and 0 width. If this is the case - that an infinite number of points each with 0 length can, when added together, create a non-zero length (the length of the line segment) - then the same kind of logic could apply to the Arrow Paradox thus resolving it.

I don't find this particularly intuitive, but that's why I'm asking about it here to see if others can take a crack at it.

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