Single Idea 13228

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time]

Full Idea

There can be no time without movement.

Gist of Idea

There is no time without movement

Source

Aristotle (Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) [c.335 BCE], 337a24)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.528


A Reaction

See Shoemaker's nice thought experiment as a challenge to this. Intuition seems to cry out that if movement stopped for a moment, that would not stop time, even though there was no way to measure its passing.