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Full Idea
I once heard a learned man say that time is nothing but the movement of the sun and the moon and the stars, but I do not agree.
Gist of Idea
I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement
Source
Augustine (Confessions [c.398], XI.22)
Book Ref
Augustine: 'Confessions', ed/tr. Pine-Coffin,R.S. [Penguin 1961], p.271
A Reaction
It is tempting to say that you either take time or movement as axiomatic, and describe one in terms of the other, but you are stuck unable to give the initial statement of the axiom without mentioning the second property you were saving for later.
| 22916 | Unlike time, change goes at different rates, and is usually localised [Aristotle, by Le Poidevin] |
| 5983 | I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement [Augustine] |
| 22883 | It seems hard to understand change without understanding time first [Bardon] |
| 22890 | We experience static states (while walking round a house) and observe change (ship leaving dock) [Bardon] |
| 22989 | Static time theory presents change as one property at t1, and a different property at t2 [Baron/Miller] |