Although this is an impressive attempt to subvert Zeno's logic, I would point out that "Potential" is in the eye of the beholder. What I mean is, "Potential" is not an actual property of the object, it is a mental abstraction, derived through inductive logic. We only know of an object's potential byway of our experiences of bygone objects. It is precisely this sort of argument, using a logical fiction, that leads us to confuse the ontological status of contingent, mental conceptions based upon induction. All the same, it is an arresting argument, appearing to prove that the very definition of "Infinite" makes its existence impossible. Zeno might ask, though, how something can have the potential to be something it can never possibly be.
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