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Single Idea 308

[from 'Timaeus' by Plato, in 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning ]

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 Reference

Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.41