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Single Idea 2101
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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Full Idea
To ask why God did not make everything a year sooner would be reasonable if time were something apart from temporal things, but time is just the succession of things, which remains the same if the universe is created a year sooner.
Gist of Idea
If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.6)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.212
The
12 ideas
with the same theme
[how we experience the nature of time]:
314
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Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens
[Plato]
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5103
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Time is not change, but requires change in our minds to be noticed
[Aristotle]
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5698
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We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence
[Lucretius]
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5978
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I know what time is, until someone asks me to explain it
[Augustine]
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2101
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If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference
[Leibniz]
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5535
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That times cannot be simultaneous is synthetic, so it is known by intuition, not analysis
[Kant]
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5560
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The three modes of time are persistence, succession and simultaneity
[Kant]
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8591
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There could be no time if nothing changed
[McTaggart]
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21581
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We never experience times, but only succession of events
[Russell]
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24204
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The past is known to us but unreachable - a perfect image of eternal, supernatural reality
[Weil]
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22993
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For abstractionists past times might still exist, althought their objects don't
[Baron/Miller]
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23001
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The error theory of time's passage says it is either a misdescription or a false inference
[Baron/Miller]
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