PHI 2383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parsing
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Leads to another question: what was god doing before the beginning (before heaven and earth) If heaven and earth is short for all of creation then the question makes little sense, for time itself, according to a, is among the things created by god. Answer: no but it means that god cannot precede his creation temporally. Time is created by god: 2. time and its paradoxes; Examples of paradoxes if no one asks me what time is, i know what it is; but if someone asks me, i no longer know. Time is real but when you analyze it, it doesn"t exist. We all feel time is real if you analyze it it doesn"t look real because its divided into past present and future but none of those exist: 3. refutation of popular solution; The theory a is alluding to states that time consists in movement, speci cally in the circular movement of the sun.