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    Time

    Oct 29, 2018 3 minutes

    The Logician

    Aristotle 384-322 BCE

    Different nows

    Without any change (or any noticeable change) in our minds, time does not seem to pass, as in the story about those who sleep in the sanctuary of the heroes in Sardinia, who wake up and do not think time has passed; what they do is amalgamate the later now into a unit with the earlier now and eliminate all the time in between because they have not noticed its passage. There would be no time if there were only a single now, rather than different nows, and by the same

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