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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

[time does not actually exist]

11 ideas
How can time exist, when it is composed of what has ceased to be and is yet to be? [Aristotle]
If all of time has either ceased to exist, or has not yet happened, maybe time does not exist [Aristotle]
Time must be unlimited, but past and present can't be non-existent, and can't be now, so time does not exist [Sext.Empiricus]
The whole of the current year is not present, so how can it exist? [Augustine]
The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist [William of Ockham]
No time exists except instants, and instants are not even a part of time, so time does not exist [Leibniz]
Time doesn't exist, since its parts don't coexist [Leibniz]
A-series time positions are contradictory, and yet all events occupy all of them! [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
Time involves change, only the A-series explains change, but it involves contradictions, so time is unreal [McTaggart, by Lowe]
How can we question the passage of time, if the question takes time to ask? [Bardon]
Most of the sciences depend on the concept of time [Baron/Miller]