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The Concept of Time in Western Antiquity

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The Study of Time II

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My purpose is to trace the development of Western conceptions to Aristotle and to argue that his conception of time is best characterized as celestial reductionism of time.

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Ariotti, P.E. (1975). The Concept of Time in Western Antiquity. In: Fraser, J.T., Lawrence, N. (eds) The Study of Time II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50121-0_5

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