
HoP 099 - Richard Sorabji on the Commentators
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Commentary on the Stoics
Aristotle thought that the physical universe was continuous but he allowed occasional exceptions for example light can fill the whole of visible space in an instant without having to travel bit by bit. He allows these exceptional leaps that's in his work on sense perception. Now this was taken up by a later Greek the skeptical philosopher Sextus and he uses the idea of leaps in a different context as well. And now finally the last of our Athenian commentators Damascus says this would also solve another of Aristotle's problems because Aristotle raised a paradox and didn't tell his exact how to answer it. Perhaps time is unreal because none of its parts exist that past is gone, future hasn't yet come so it doesn
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