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    Time exists

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    • 1.Time is the measure of motion with respect to the before and after
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    • 2.Time is an entity in the category of quantity
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    • 3.Entities in any category of being exist
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    • 1.Only the present moment exists; the past is no longer real and the future is not yet real.
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    • 2.A measure constituted almost entirely by non-existent parts (past and future) cannot itself be said to exist.
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    • 3.Therefore time, as Aristotle defines it, lacks the ontological status required for genuine existence.
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    • 1.Time as experienced is a construction of conscious minds, as Augustine argued: time exists only in the soul's distension between memory and anticipation.
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    • 2.If time depends entirely on mind for its existence, it does not exist independently as a genuine feature of reality.
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    • 3.Aristotle's own text acknowledges that without a soul to count, it is doubtful whether time would exist at all (Physics IV, 223a).
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    Thinking first of time and its various puzzles, or aporiai, we saw that Aristotle poses a simple question: does time exist? He answers this question in the affirmative, but only because in the end he treats it as a categorically circumscribed question. He claims that ‘time is the measure of motion with respect to the before and after’ (Phys. 219b1–2). By offering this definition, Aristotle is able to advance the judgment that time does exist, because it is an entity in the category of quant
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