Stockwell, Sept. 7.
_Achilles and the Tortoise_ (Vol. ii., p. l54.).--[Greek: Idiôtês] will
find the paradox of "Achilles and the Tortoise" explained by Mr. Mansel of
St. John's College, Oxon, in a note to his late edition of Aldrich's
_Logic_ (1849, p. 125.). He there shows that the fallacy is a material one:
being a false assumption of the major premise, viz., that the sum of an
infinite series is itself always infinite (whereas it may be finite).
Mansel refers to Plato, _Parmenid._ p. 128. [when will editors learn to
specify the editions which they use?] Aristot. _Soph. Eleuctr._ 10. 2. 33.
4., and Cousin, _Nouveaux Fragments, Zénon d'Elée._