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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Prospects: Proletarian Revolution?' and 'Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root''

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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

4189	Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer]
	Full Idea: Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing.
	From: Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.IV)
	A reaction: An off-beat philosophical view of the question. Sounds more like a consequence of time than its essential nature.

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]
	Full Idea: Archelaus wrote that life on Earth began in a primeval slime.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Malcolm Schofield - Archelaus
	A reaction: This sounds like a fairly clearcut assertion of the production of life by evolution. Darwin's contribution was to propose the mechanism for achieving it. We should honour the name of Archelaus for this idea.