 In the context is his theory of consequence, Marsilius treats the well-known issue of coming to be (incipit) and passing away (desinit). Here he likewise follows John Buridan, although once again in an independent way. His logical point of view, intentionally ignoring specific features of physical reality, is striking. For example, he considers the physical distinction between permanent and successive things irrelevant to the validity of consequences that imply notions of coming to be and passing away. Also, in dealing with such consequences, he accepts indivisible instances of time for methodological reasons, though physically speaking time is infinitely divisible for him. Here, he joins Albert of  Saxony.[16]