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Ideas of William Crathorn, by Text

[English, fl. 1330, Dominican follower of William of Ockham, lecturing at Oxford]

1335 Sentences
I.16, concl.2 p.383 Time is independent of motion, because God could stop everything for a short or long time
     Full Idea: Suppose God annihilates everything, and then creates something new. The vacant interval could last a shorter or longer time, so there are facts about time independent of facts about motion.
     From: report of William Crathorn (Sentences [1335], I.16, concl.2) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 18.2
     A reaction: Not very persuasive if God is in some way 'timeless'. Crathorn would have loved Shoemaker's argument, where motionless time is the best explanation, rather than a possible explanation.