Time for Aristotle
Physics IV. 10-14
Coope, Ursula Birkbeck College, University of London
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924790-5







doi:10.1093/0199247900.003.0004

Ursula Coope
Abstract: Aristotle says that time ‘follows’ change and change ‘follows’ magnitude. This chapter discusses the notion of ‘following’. It also explains how Aristotle uses the notion of following to justify a claim he makes about the continuity of time and of change: the claim that that time is continuous because change is, and change is continuous because magnitude is.

Keywords: change, magnitude, continuity, following,

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PART I INTRODUCTORY PUZZLES AND THE STARTING POINTS OF INQUIRY
PART II TIME'S DEPENDENCE ON CHANGE
PART III TIME AS A NUMBER AND TIME AS A MEASURE
PART IV THE SAMENESS AND DIFFERENCE OF TIMES AND NOWS
PART V TWO CONSEQUENCES OF ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT OF TIME