Aristotle however, rejected the idea of created time, and chose to relate time to motion: in the measurements of time via water, celestial bodies, or hourglasses, motion was a key property of the process, so for Aristotle, time was motion, that could be enumerated.

Aristotle disagreed, stating that "...time is not composed of indivisible 'nows'...".

It was Aristotle who gave us the term physics, from his text Physike Akroasis, or Lectures on Nature.

Aristotle, however, rejected the idea of independently existing time, as he considered time to be motion, and thus felt that time was a result of dynamical objects.