And as it becomes one and many, must it not inevitably experience
separation and aggregation?
Inevitably.
And whenever it becomes like and unlike it must be assimilated and
dissimilated?
Yes.
And when it becomes greater or less or equal it must grow or
diminish or be equalized?
True.
And when being in motion it rests, and when being at rest it changes
to motion, it can surely be in no time at all?
How can it?
But that a thing which is previously at rest should be afterwards in
motion, or previously in motion and afterwards at rest, without
experiencing change, is impossible.
Impossible.
And surely there cannot be a time in which a thing can be at once
neither in motion nor at rest?
There cannot.
But neither can it change without changing.
True.
When then does it change; for it cannot change either when at
rest, or when in motion, or when in time?
It cannot.
And does this strange thing in which it is at the time of changing
really exist?
What thing?
The moment. For the moment seems to imply a something out of which
change takes place into either of two states; for the change is not
from the state of rest as such, nor, from the state of motion as such;
but there is this curious nature, which we call the moment lying
between rest and motion, not being in any time; and into this and
out of this what is in motion changes into rest, and what is at rest
into motion.
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