Аннотация:In Book IV, Chapter 11 of the Physics, Aristotle claims that 'the before and after' exists in time because it also exists in change, and it exists in change because it also exists in magnitude, and, further, that 'time follows change' and 'change follows magnitude'.1 This is usually taken to mean that moments of time correspond to momentary stages of changes, and that momentary stages of changes correspond to points in magnitudes, so that time derives its 'before and after' from that of change, and change from that of magnitude.2 But this is widely thought to land Aristotle in the following diffi culty: If Socrates walks between points A and C, for instance, he can either proceed from point A to point 1 Ph IV 11, 219a14-19, cf., 219b15-6, 220b24-6.2 As Hussey suggests, a clear but anachronistic way to state this is to say that there is a continuous function or mapping from what are before and after in magnitude onto what are before and after in change and from what are before and after in change onto what are before and after in time that preserves the before and after of each of the series.(Edward Hussey, Aristotle's Physics III & IV (Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press 1983), 144.As Bostock and Sorabji have pointed out, what are before and after in change must be 'momentary stages' of a change, since Aristotle claims at Physics IV 11, 219a22-6 that these can function as boundaries of a change.(
