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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mathematics without Foundations' 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 / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820	Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]
	Full Idea: Posidonius defined time thus: it is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed and slowness.
	From: report of Posidonius (fragments/reports [c.95 BCE]) by John Stobaeus - Anthology 1.08.42
	A reaction: Hm. Can we define motion or speed without alluding to time? Looks like we have to define them as a conjoined pair, which means we cannot fully understand either of them.