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Ideas for 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)', 'Posthumous notes' and 'Metaphysics'

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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)

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time

617	It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: It is impossible that movement should either come-to-be or be destroyed. The same can be said for time itself, since it is not even possible for there to be an earlier and a later if time does not exist.
	From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1071b06)