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    It is not the case that Knowledge of the true nature of material objects requires abstracting from all relations of time.

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    • 1.For Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, substance is only intelligible through its accidents, including temporal duration and change.
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    • 2.A material object stripped of all temporal relations is indistinguishable from a purely abstract mathematical entity, not a material thing.
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    • 3.Knowledge of material objects as material requires grasping their capacity for change, which is essentially temporal in character.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Pure Reason that time is the form of inner intuition structuring all possible experience of objects.
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    • 2.If temporal abstraction removes the very conditions under which objects can be known, such abstraction yields no knowledge of objects at all.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The true nature of material objects consists in material substance considered as it is in itself, independent of temporal or spatial ties.
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    • 2.What the senses offer is knowledge of matter as it exists at a certain time and place — in its various divisions, shapes, and sizes.
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    • 3.To reach knowledge of the true nature of material objects, one must consider their being in relation to their substance alone.
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