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    Time is a single measure of motion with respect to before... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There exist two distinct kinds of duration: extrinsic duration (the time of celestial motion, which is one in number) and intrinsic duration (dependent on sublunary motions, which is plural).

    Time is a single measure of motion with respect to before and after, not a plurality of measures corresponding to distinct movers (Aristotle, Physics IV.11).

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    • 1.Motion requires a common reference frame to measure temporal sequence; without unified time, comparing motions of different objects becomes incoherent.
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    • 2.Before/after relations are objective features of change itself, not observer-dependent; they ground a single, universal temporal measure.
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    • 3.Multiple independent time measures would make causation and interaction between movers unintelligible, violating basic physical coherence.
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    • 1.Relativistic physics shows that simultaneity and temporal measure are reference-frame dependent, not universal across all movers and observers.
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    • 2.Distinct processes (biological, atomic, cosmological) exhibit their own intrinsic temporal measures; unifying them obscures their real structures.
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    • 3.Time measured by celestial motion differs fundamentally from time measured by heart rate or decay; calling them one 'measure' conflates measurement with reality.
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