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Causality and Time

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The Study of Time II

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The time was one day in the latter part of the Second Century before Christ. The place was somewhere in the Northwest part of India. The interlocutors were Buddhist Priest Nagasena and Greek King Menandros or Milinda.*1

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Watanabe, M.S. (1975). Causality and Time. In: Fraser, J.T., Lawrence, N. (eds) The Study of Time II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50121-0_20

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