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Full Idea
Time came into being with the heavens, so that they should be dissolved together if ever they are dissolved.
Gist of Idea
Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 38c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.52
22918 | What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides] |
312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
617 | It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle] |
22925 | The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present [Le Poidevin] |