What Zeno was effectively trying to convey was a counterintuitive property of sums of infinite series: that an endless series of fractions can converge on a value that will never exceed a finite value. The Greeks were unfamiliar with calculus at the time, however.

His *argumentum ad absurdum* was that given the conclusion that all natural motion could be divided into physically meaningless infinitesimals, then it follows that concepts such as of plurality, motion, and change over time must be an illusion.
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