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Berkeley complained that whenever he attempted to frame a simple idea of time,
abstracted from the succession of ideas in his mind, he was 'lost and embrangled
in inextricable difficulties'. He believed that the duration of any finite spirit was ...
Berkeley complained that whenever he attempted to frame a simple idea of time,
abstracted from the succession of ideas in his mind, he was 'lost and embrangled
in inextricable difficulties'. He believed that the duration of any finite spirit was ...
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The problem of how time order is constructed by us on the basis of our
movements of attention from one presentation to another is beset with difficulties.
t We have already stressed the distinction between succession in thought and the
...
The problem of how time order is constructed by us on the basis of our
movements of attention from one presentation to another is beset with difficulties.
t We have already stressed the distinction between succession in thought and the
...
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Instead they usually appeal to our conscious awareness of the succession of
events in the mental present. They argue that this gives rise to our initial notion of
pastness which we then gradually iearn to extend beyond that range. Indeed ...
Instead they usually appeal to our conscious awareness of the succession of
events in the mental present. They argue that this gives rise to our initial notion of
pastness which we then gradually iearn to extend beyond that range. Indeed ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Natural Philosophy of Time Oxford science publications |
| Autor | G. J. Whitrow |
| Ausgabe | 2, illustriert |
| Verlag | Clarendon Press, 1980 |
| Original von | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalisiert | 19. Jan. 2010 |
| ISBN | 0198582129, 9780198582120 |
| Länge | 399 Seiten |
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