When the sage is reminded, however, that the philosophers believe in the past-eternity of the world and support their claims by scrupulous investigation, the sage rejects the philosopher's view of the past-eternity of the world as well.
In the end, Aristotle preferred the idea of the world's past-eternity because of an essentially cultural predilection for the abstract argumentation supporting it and, of course, because he lacked a reliable tradition supporting the contrary view.
The new library's deep foundations have erased all traces of the past for eternity.
He, or anyone else, is invited to sit on that bench across from the United Methodist Church and ponder past misdeeds, eternity, whatever, and maybe feel around on the underside of the seat. 5. Attention Caite, Janis, Tanya and the other eighth graders at West Windsor-Plainsboro Community Middle School whom I talked to on Career Day last week.
And it depends on the contrapuntal arrangement of contrasting ideas: time and eternity; past and present; masculine and feminine; innocence and experience.
After a positive evaluation, the reviewer concludes that "we feel assured that we will learn not that the world is without a personal God; but only that this God has been working throughout the past ages of eternity and is still working".
In the eternity of time past, and assuming that everything that can be nonexistent is so at some time or other, there would be nothing now.
I'd assumed Kyle was long gone, a ghost of the past resigned to ghost for eternity, but these four simple words were all I needed to piece together the clues.
Furthermore, to the extent that the ancient pagan views of the universe involve the infinity of past time, with all the philosophical difficulties that the eternity of past time entails, natural reason would seem capable of arriving, in principle, at the conclusion that the world was created, even though, historically speaking, the greatest of the ancient philosophers failed to do so.
For many of the estimated 10,000 people displaced from their homes downtown, the past weeks must have stretched toward eternity.
