Time
- 1 January 2016
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractProbably it is nonsense. But there is something unfathomable about time, and about the experience of being in it; people therefore feel cheated by any philosophy which leaves the matter unexplored. Aristotle says: ‘One part of time has been and is not, while the other is going to be and is not yet. Yet time – both infinite time and any time you care to take – is made up of these. One would naturally suppose that what is made up of things which do not exist could have no share of reality. ’ To put the point in another way. If you subtract from time all the bits that are not, you are left only with the ‘now’: and not even with that, for no sooner are you left with it, and it has gone. Many other philosophers have followed Aristotle in thinking, both that the idea of the...Keywords
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