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Contrary to the philosophers.
In this historical setting, the philosophers principally denotes a specific Peripatetic philosophical account that treats some underlying principle of the world as beginningless. It should not be generalized to every philosopher in history or to all contemporary physical scientists.
The disagreement is not whether change occurs: both sides may acknowledge change. It concerns the temporal beginning of the world as a whole or of its proposed underlying principles.