The Natural Philosophy of TimeClarendon Press, 1980 - 399 Seiten |
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... sequence of future events . To say that a sequence of future events is infinite means that each event in the sequence will have a successor . Following Bentley , we can describe such a sequence as ' poten- tially infinite ...
... sequence of future events . To say that a sequence of future events is infinite means that each event in the sequence will have a successor . Following Bentley , we can describe such a sequence as ' poten- tially infinite ...
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... sequence ( of events ) cannot be completed in a finite time " for to say that something will not occur in a finite time is exactly the same as to say that it will never occur " . Nevertheless , Zwart agrees with Russell that Kant's ...
... sequence ( of events ) cannot be completed in a finite time " for to say that something will not occur in a finite time is exactly the same as to say that it will never occur " . Nevertheless , Zwart agrees with Russell that Kant's ...
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... sequence of days , one after another , could the number that he had lived through cease to be finite . If it were possible , in principle , to ' live through ' an infinite sequence of future events , this sequence would have to comprise ...
... sequence of days , one after another , could the number that he had lived through cease to be finite . If it were possible , in principle , to ' live through ' an infinite sequence of future events , this sequence would have to comprise ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
Urheberrecht | |
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