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Ideas for 'works', 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' and 'On 'Physics''

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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle]
     Full Idea: With a single exception (Plato) everyone agrees about time - that it is not generated. Democritus says time is an obvious example of something not generated.
     From: report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Aristotle - Physics 251b14
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
Mind involves fighting, fleeing, feeding and fornicating [Searle]
     Full Idea: Our conscious life involves the famous "four f's", fighting, fleeing, feeding and fornicating.
     From: John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch.10.I)