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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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A man walking backwards on a forwards-moving ship is moving in a fixed place [Sext.Empiricus]
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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 / c. Tenses and time
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Time doesn't end with the Universe, because tensed statements about destruction remain true [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / c. Intervals
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Time is divisible, into past, present and future [Sext.Empiricus]
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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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Socrates either dies when he exists (before his death) or when he doesn't (after his death) [Sext.Empiricus]
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If the present is just the limit of the past or the future, it can't exist because they don't exist [Sext.Empiricus]
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