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'Confessions', 'Ontological Categories' and 'Material Beings'
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 3. Chromodynamics / a. Chromodynamics
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The strong force pulls, but also pushes apart if nucleons get too close together [Inwagen]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time
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Maybe time is an extension of the mind [Augustine]
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To be aware of time it can only exist in the mind, as memory or anticipation [Augustine, by Bardon]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
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How can ten days ahead be a short time, if it doesn't exist? [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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If the past is no longer, and the future is not yet, how can they exist? [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
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The whole of the current year is not present, so how can it exist? [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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I know what time is, until someone asks me to explain it [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / h. Change in time
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I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning
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Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change [Augustine]
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27. Natural Reality / F. Chemistry / 2. Modern Elements
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Is one atom a piece of gold, or is a sizable group of atoms required? [Inwagen]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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At the lower level, life trails off into mere molecular interaction [Inwagen]
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The chemical reactions in a human life involve about sixteen elements [Inwagen]
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Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague? [Inwagen]
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A flame is like a life, but not nearly so well individuated [Inwagen]
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If God were to 'reassemble' my atoms of ten years ago, the result would certainly not be me [Inwagen]
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A tumour may spread a sort of life, but it is not a life, or an organism [Inwagen]
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Being part of an organism's life is a matter of degree, and vague [Inwagen]
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Some events are only borderline cases of lives [Inwagen]
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Unlike waves, lives are 'jealous'; it is almost impossible for them to overlap [Inwagen]
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One's mental and other life is centred on the brain, unlike any other part of the body [Inwagen]
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