Talk:Eternity: Difference between revisions

::This isn't supposed to be final - if you can think of a way to smoothly incorporate the potential/actual distinction, for example, that would be awesome. Cheers, &there4; <span style="font: bold 1em Courier, monospace;">[[Special:Contributions/ZX95|ZX95]]</span> ^{<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:ZX95|discuss]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>} 16:35, 16 January 2013 (UTC) EDIT: Whoops, I just saw the potential/actual bit down in the philosophy section. {{facepalm|d'oh|10px}}. For including it in the lede, maybe something like: "...[[Aristotle]] established a distinction between the actually eternal, in contrast to a merely potentially infinite count, and posited that the natural cosmos..." etcetera etcetera. How does that sound? Cheers, &there4; <span style="font: bold 1em Courier, monospace;">[[Special:Contributions/ZX95|ZX95]]</span> ^{<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:ZX95|discuss]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>} 16:50, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

:::Does the lede need it? It was just unclear what impossible + actuality/potentiality means. Again, it's not just in those contexts and it's not merely "tied"... The link to [[Immutability (theology)]] is less than a stub.—[[User talk:Machine Elf 1735|<span style="text-shadow:#00FADE 0.05em 0.05em 0.07em;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Fraktur, Mathematica6, Georgia, sans-serif">Machine Elf <sup style="font-size:75%;font-family: Georgia, sans-serif">1735</sup></span>]] 07:49, 21 January 2013 (UTC)