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Full Idea
The cosmos is visible, tangible and corporeal, and therefore perceptible by the senses; therefore it is an object of opinion and sensation, and therefore change and coming into being.
Gist of Idea
If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 28d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.41
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| 148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
| 308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato] |
| 1498 | Everyone agrees that the world had a beginning, but thinkers disagree over whether it will end [Aristotle] |
| 613 | Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle] |
| 619 | Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle] |
| 620 | The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle] |
| 5977 | Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change [Augustine] |
| 21108 | The universe is precisely 13.72 billion years old [Krauss] |
| 16581 | Scholastic authors agree that matter was created by God, out of nothing [Pasnau] |