(August 9, 2023 at 10:49 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 7, 2023 at 8:09 am)Belacqua Wrote: For Augustine, the Universe began to exist at a certain point, and time began at the same moment. But the universe is essentially prior to time, even though there was never a time when the former existed and the latter didn't.
The use of the word "prior" becomes a category mistake in the absence of time. It's like asking what is the weight of Catholicism in grams.
There are two kinds of priority: temporal and essential. The essential type is sometimes called ontological.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontologica...reference.
