The Natural Philosophy of TimeClarendon Press, 1980 - 399 Seiten |
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... mathematical existence . For Brouwer , the existence of mathematical entities is synonymous with the possibility of their construction , and a particular theorem is neither true nor false until we have a construction for deciding the ...
... mathematical existence . For Brouwer , the existence of mathematical entities is synonymous with the possibility of their construction , and a particular theorem is neither true nor false until we have a construction for deciding the ...
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... mathematical concepts of space and time involving numeri- cal continuity in our calculations , but the infinite divisibility associated with these concepts will then be purely mathematical and will not correspond to anything physical ...
... mathematical concepts of space and time involving numeri- cal continuity in our calculations , but the infinite divisibility associated with these concepts will then be purely mathematical and will not correspond to anything physical ...
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... Mathematical time as a type of serial order Since the mathematical instant of zero duration is the precise analogue of the geometrical point , it cannot be regarded as the theoretical correlate of the ' now ' of our sensory awareness ...
... Mathematical time as a type of serial order Since the mathematical instant of zero duration is the precise analogue of the geometrical point , it cannot be regarded as the theoretical correlate of the ' now ' of our sensory awareness ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
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