Making Time Aristotle's Way

Are Kinetic and Temporal Continuities Real for Aristotle?

“…Another logical possibility is that McGinnis 2003;Coope 2005: Roark 2011and Sentesy (2018) were wrong to reject verificationism as an adequate description of Aristotle's account of time. Such an argument would depend on a strong intervention in the text to the effect that when Aristotle describes the changing thing as unifying and dividing, he is only speaking of how it displays features of a pre-existing continuity to a soul.…”

“…Yet Aristotle would reply that the potency to be divided is always individual: there is no collective capacity to be infinitely divided, there is only the capacity to be divided again. 9 For example,McGinnis 2003, andSentesy 2018.…”