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Zeno's paradoxes should be understood as the opposite law of thought to the Kantian. The possible poles that enframe our vision are the same, what differs is only that of intent, of the relation to metaphysical and physical laws. Zeno wants to eliminate that which is within the poles, and to become one with what is outside of them; Kant imagines the elimination of what is beyond the poles, a technical blindness to increase the force of all the limits within. For Zeno, the subordination of the physical to the metaphysical; for Kant, the subordination of the metaphysicalto the physical.
Zeno sees it not so much as an inescapable problem, but a trap; Kant sees the plotting of every line within the poles as a solution, and one which paradoxically puts him ahead of the tortoise. Zeno's One is the cosmic event of being; Kant's noumena is cosmic death through the lunar eclipse of the mind.