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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Phaedrus' and 'Philosophy of Revelation'

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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.

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning

148	If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato]
	Full Idea: If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything.
	From: Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 245d)
	A reaction: This is the essence of Aquinas's Third Way of proving God's existence.