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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Timaeus' and 'Remembrance of Things Past'

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
24255 Motion needs differing moved and mover, so it originates in diversity [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
24256 The spherical universe composed of four elements squeezes out every bit of void [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
24253 Space is eternal and indestructible, but is only known by barely credible reasoning [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
24245 The god created eternity in the sequence of the universe, and its image we call 'time' [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
20819 The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
314 Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
312 Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
20818 The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
20821 Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
309 Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning
308 If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato]
24238 The god found chaos, and led it to superior order [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 10. Multiverse
24242 Is there a plurality (or even an infinity) of universes? No, because the model makes it unique [Plato]