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    Challenges→Aristotle's assumption that celestial motion has gone on for all eternity leads to an absurdity that Aristotle himself rejected.

    If celestial motion has gone on for all eternity, the total number of revolutions of different spheres would stand in ratios implying that one infinity is larger than another.

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    Like the polemic against Proclus, Against Aristotle is mainly devoted to removing obstacles for the creationist. If Aristotle were right about the existence of an immutable fifth element (ether) in the celestial region, and if he were right about motion and time being eternal, any belief in creation would surely be unwarranted. Philoponus succeeds in pointing to numerous contradictions, inconsistencies, fallacies and improbable assumptions in Aristotle’s philosophy of nature relating to these cl

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