more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
Time cannot be indivisible, since it is divided into past, present and future.
Gist of Idea
Time is divisible, into past, present and future
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], II.193)
Book Ref
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.307
A Reaction
Does the fact that you can name the parts of something prove that it is divisible? Do electrons have left and right-hand sides?
22750 | Time is divisible, into past, present and future [Sext.Empiricus] |
1905 | How can time be divisible if we can't compare one length of time with another? [Sext.Empiricus] |
22944 | The primitive parts of time are intervals, not instants [Le Poidevin] |
18927 | Surely if things extend over time, then time itself must be extended? [Cameron] |