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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Truth and the Past' and 'New System and Explanation of New System'

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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

8197	Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths

8196	The present cannot exist alone as a mere boundary; past and future truths are rendered meaningless [Dummett]

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]

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

620	The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle]

613	Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle]

619	Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life

5043	To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz]