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Three Concepts of Time

By Denbigh, K. G.

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Three Concepts of Time

By Denbigh, K. G.

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The existence of so many strangely puzzling, even contradictory, aspects of 'time' is due, I think, to the fact that we obtain our ideas about temporal succession from more than one source - from inner experience, on the one side, and from the physical world on the other. 'Time' is thus a composite notion and as soon as we distinguish clearly between the ideas deriving from the different sources it becomes apparent that there is not just one time-concept but several. Perhaps they should be called variants, but in any case they need to be seen as distinct. In this book I shall aim at characteri­ sing what I believe to be the three most basic of them. These form a sort of hierarchy of increasing richness, but diminishing symmetry. Any adequate inquiry into 'time' is necessarily partly scientific and partly philosophical. This creates a difficulty since what may be elementary reading to scientists may not be so to philosophers, and vice versa. For this reason I have sought to present the book at a level which is less 'advanced' than that of a specialist monograph. Due to my own background there is an inevitable bias towards the scientific aspects oftime. Certainly the issues I have taken up are very diffe­ rent from those discussed in several recent books on the subject by philoso­ phers.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
1981-07-01
Publication Date:
1981-07-01
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3540107576
ISBN13:
9783540107576
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
342 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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