− | While in the popular mind, '''eternity''' often simply means existing for an [[infinity|infinite]], i.e., limitless, amount of [[time]], many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether '''outside of time'''. There are a number of [[arguments for eternity]], by which proponents of the concept, principally [[Aristotle]], purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally. | + | While in the popular mind, '''eternity''' often simply means existing for an [[infinite]], i.e., limitless, amount of [[time]], many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether '''outside of time'''. There are a number of [[arguments for eternity]], by which proponents of the concept, principally [[Aristotle]], purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally. |