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Untimely Reflections #18 - Quinn Williams - The Time-Atom Fragment

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Theory of Time Atomism

So by assuming this base is zero or infinitely smaller, I think zero in this case, there's no distances between atoms, right? Right. The distances become infinitely small. So there's no force and no motion. It's absolute non-persistence of being, right? Yeah. And you're getting a bunch of things here that also they go right into his, his critique of being because even as of thinking through all punctual atoms coincide in one point. That is kind of like the unity of all things,. Like multiplicity disappears in that coinciding in one point - so he says we can have a coherent metaphysical position for this theory given all of the sort of issues that he

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