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Single Idea 4189

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time ]

Full Idea

Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing.

Gist of Idea

Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing

Source

Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.IV)

Book Ref

Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.270

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A Reaction

An off-beat philosophical view of the question. Sounds more like a consequence of time than its essential nature.