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Single Idea 617

[from 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle, in 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time ]

Full Idea

It is impossible that movement should either come-to-be or be destroyed. The same can be said for time itself, since it is not even possible for there to be an earlier and a later if time does not exist.

Gist of Idea

It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1071b06)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.369