Chapter 60

Simultaneous is properly said of things whose beginnings of being were at the same time, as, for instance, when two individuals have been bom at the same instant. This mode is opposed to the first meaning of prior. According to a second meaning, those things are simultaneous which exist together mutually without one being the cause of the other or caused by the other. Such are the double and the half, for these simultaneously exist together and simultaneously introduce each other. This mode is opposed to the second and fifth mode of prior. This is because in the second the things do not mutua