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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time
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Newton needs intervals of time, to define velocity and acceleration [Newton, by Le Poidevin]
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Newton thought his laws of motion needed absolute time [Newton, by Bardon]
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Time exists independently, and flows uniformly [Newton]
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Absolute time, from its own nature, flows equably, without relation to anything external [Newton]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
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Newtonian mechanics does not distinguish negative from positive values of time [Newton, by Coveney/Highfield]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / d. Measuring time
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If there is no uniform motion, we cannot exactly measure time [Newton]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
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