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Ideas for 'talk', 'Letters to Samuel Clarke' and 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays''

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

2100	Space and time are purely relative [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: I have more than once stated that I held space to be something purely relative, like time.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.4)

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

2107	No time exists except instants, and instants are not even a part of time, so time does not exist [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: How could a thing exist, no part of which ever exists? In the case of time, nothing exists but instants, and an instant is not even a part of time.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 5.49)

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time

2101	If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: To ask why God did not make everything a year sooner would be reasonable if time were something apart from temporal things, but time is just the succession of things, which remains the same if the universe is created a year sooner.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.6)