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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)' and 'Model Theory for Modal Logic I'

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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 / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths
17243 Past times can't exist anywhere, apart from in our memories [Hobbes]
     Full Idea: When people speak of the times of their predecessors, they do not think after their predecessors are gone that their times can be any where else than in the memory of those that remember.
     From: Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 2.07.03)