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Can you define the concept?
~modest
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It is a concept of duration, but...
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...defining time in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars...
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Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are the two main sides of the debate, as I see it...
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Among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.[4][5] The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz[6] and Immanuel Kant,[7][8] holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable.
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I do not go as far as to claim that time does not have objective reality, merely that I don't know and don't know how I could know.
