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Time is "number of movement in respect to the before and after", and is continuous since it is an attribute of what is continuous.

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Individuality is a pervasive character of things, but so also it would seem that there is nothing individual which has not in it a character recognisable by thought, and known as a universal.

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Time is the mind of Space, and Space the body of Time.

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The more comprehensive a science becomes the closer it comes to philosophy, so that it may become difficult to say where the science leaves off and philosophy begins.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Samuel Alexander

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Born: January 6, 1859
Died: September 13, 1938 (aged 79)
Bio: Samuel Alexander OM, FBA was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.
Known for:
  1. Space, time, and deity
  2. Beauty and other forms of value (1933)
  3. Spinoza and time (1921)
  4. Moral Order and Progress (1889)

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