In his "On the Spirit of Geometry," Pascal argues that the evidence of the idea of time merely consists in its being signified by an undefined term. Because the word ‘time’ immediately designates the same object for all, it does not require to be substituted with a series of words explaining it. However, that the word ‘time’ is undefined does not imply for Pascal that the nature of time cannot be stated. All physical things, Pascal contends, are conceived with the property of time or duration. Like motion, extension and number, time is necessarily conceived as a quantity liable to increase and decrease in infinitum. Any duration is just in the middle between two infinities, the infinitely great and the infinitely small. For Pascal, this demonstrates the necessity for the evaluation of the existence of an individual according to the consideration of eternity.
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