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Full Idea
There is no reason in experience to suppose that there are times as opposed to events: the events, ordered by the relations of simultaneity and succession, are all that experience provides.
Gist of Idea
We never experience times, but only succession of events
Source
Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], 4)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Our Knowledge of the External World' [Routledge 1993], p.122
A Reaction
We experience events, but also have quite an accurate sense of how much time has passed during the occurrence of events. If asked how much time has lapsed, why don't we say '32 events'? How do we distinguish long events from short ones?