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 Rh may move; the second emphasises the fact that, however slowly it moves, it will traverse an infinite distance.

Here a further complication is introduced. The moving object itself has length, and its successive positions are not points but lines. The first two arguments are intended to destroy the hypothesis that a line consists of an infinite number of indivisibles; this argument and the next deal with the hypothesis that it consists of a finite number of indivisibles.