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Dilemma #3 is Zeno's famous paradox of Achilles and the tortoise: you can't get from A to B because first you have to get to the midpoint, C, but now to get from A to C... and so on, so nobody gets anywhere. Paradox!

Ryle dodges the attractive distractor that is the "actual"/"completed" infinity concept, and points out that in one sense, "if you haven't taken all the time, you will still have length left." Duh!