It might probably no longer be measured since it didn't exist; and now it can't be measured since it has ceased to be. on the time whilst it used to be sounding, it was once attainable simply because at the moment it existed to be measured. but even then it had no permanence. It got here and went. Did this make it extra attainable to degree? In means of passing away it used to be prolonged via a undeniable area of time wherein it can be measured, because the current occupies no size of time. accordingly in the course of that temporary strategy it can be measured. yet take, for instance, one other voice. It starts to sound and maintains to take action unflaggingly with none interruption. allow us to degree it whereas it's sounding; while it has ceased to sound, will probably be prior and won't exist to be measurable. obviously we might at that degree degree it through announcing how lengthy it lasted. but when it truly is nonetheless sounding, it can't be measured other than from the beginning second while it all started to sound to the finish while it ceased. What we degree is the particular period from the start to the tip. this is why a legitimate which has no longer but ended can't be measured: one can't say how lengthy or how brief it really is, nor that it really is equivalent to a couple different size of time or that during relation to a different it's unmarried or double or this type of share. but if it has come to an finish, then it's going to have already got ceased to be. by means of what technique then can it's measured? however we do degree sessions of time. And but the days we degree are usually not these which don't but exist, nor these which have already got no life, nor these which expand over no period of time, nor these which achieve no conclusions. So the days we degree are usually not destiny nor previous nor current nor these in technique of passing away. but we degree sessions of time. (35) “God, writer of all things”—Deus writer omnium— the road involves 8 syllables, during which brief and lengthy syllables exchange. So the 4 that are brief (the first, 3rd, fifth, and 7th) are unmarried when it comes to the 4 lengthy syllables (the moment, fourth, 6th, and eighth). all of the lengthy syllables has two times the time of the fast. As I recite the phrases, I additionally notice that this is often so, for it truly is glaring to sense-perception. To the measure that the sense-perception is unambiguous, I degree the lengthy syllable through the quick one, and understand it to be two times the size. but if one syllable sounds after one other, the fast first, the lengthy after it, how shall I hold my carry at the brief, and the way use it to use a degree to the lengthy, as a way to be certain that the lengthy is two times as a lot? The lengthy doesn't start to sound until the fast has ceased to sound. i will hardly ever degree the lengthy throughout the presence of its sound, as measuring turns into attainable in basic terms after it has ended. while it really is finished, it has long gone into the previous. What then is it which I degree? the place is the fast syllable with which i'm making my dimension? the place is the lengthy which i'm measuring? either have sounded; they've got flown away; they belong to the previous. They now don't exist. and that i supply my size and claim as confidently as a practised sense-perception will enable, that the fast is unmarried, the lengthy double — I suggest within the time they occupy.