Single Idea 22944

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / c. Intervals]

Full Idea

Intervals of time can be viewed as primitive, and not decomposable into a series of instants.

Gist of Idea

The primitive parts of time are intervals, not instants

Source

Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 09 'in present')

Book Reference

Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.158


A Reaction

Given that instants are nothing, and intervals are something, the latter are clearly the better candidates to be the parts of time. Is there a smallest interval?