[Buddha-l] Time Is Not Real

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Lambert Stepanich schreef:

>At least, it appeared as if Diogenes stood up and walked away!  But
>appearances are not necessarily reality.
>
>I'm rather partial to Kant's argument in the First Antinomy: If time is
>something real (transcendentally, absolutely), time would be either
>finite or infinite.  But time cannot be either finite or infinite.
>Therefore, time is not something real (again, transcendentally, or
>absolutely).  
>
>Time cannot be finite because this would require there to be a beginning
>to time, a time when time began, which is incoherent.  Equally, time
>cannot be infinite, for this would require an infinite period of time to
>have actually lapsed for this present moment to occur (or for any
>present moment to occur).  However, an infinite series cannot be
>completed in time.  
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 This argument is already mentioned by Sextus Empiricus in Headlines of Pyrrhonism Book 3 XIX

Erik


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