The Philosophical Review/Volume 1/Summary: Fischer - Die Dreher'schen Antinomien
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Die Dreherschen Antinomien. Ludwig Fischer. Z. f. Ph., XCIX, 2, pp. 233-244.
This is a reply to E. Dreher's article, Antinomien und Paralogismen in 98. 2 of this Zeitschrift. D. had there treated the arguments, well known to antiquity, of Eubulides and Protagoras and the so-called "Crocodile" conclusion. F. criticises and attempts to show inconsistencies in D.'s definitions of an infinitely small and of an infinitely large quantity. He also finds his proof that time and space are not continuous quantities unconvincing, and holds that there is no ground for the resulting paradox that motion must be thought as resulting from states of rest. F. treats of the notions of infinite and continuous quanta from the mathematical point of view, and it is impossible here to summarize the argument.