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not the quantitative measure of motions out in the world. Instead, it would be our own measurements of time which render it “determinate” by dividing it into minutes and hours (§77). But even this is not presented as a way of saving Augustine’s position. Instead, Kilwardby uses the point to explain Aristotle’s claim that we know time by counting or “marking off” a motion (Physics 219a).
Medieval Philosophy
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