An example of this involving a relation is that a single column may be to Zayd’s right and then come to be on his left, while Zayd himself has undergone no change.
He said:
This is not correct, for the relation itself has changed: the relation that was one of being on the right has become one of being on the left. What has not changed is the subject of the relation—that is, its bearer, Zayd.
If this is so, and knowledge is itself a relation, then it must change when the thing known changes, just as the column’s relation to Zayd changes in itself, becoming a relation of being on the left after having been one of being on the right.
He said:
In our view, this difficulty is resolved by recognizing that eternal knowledge relates to what exists differently from the way temporally originated knowledge relates to