Time


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1 The nature of time, time as duration or as the measure of motion, time as a continuous quantity, absolute and relative time.
2 The distinction between time and eternity, the eternity of endless time distinguished from the eternity of timelessness and immutability.
3 Aeviternity as intermediate between time and eternity.
4 Arguments concerning the infinity of time and the eternity of motion or the world.
5 The creation of time, the priority of eternity to time, the immutability of the world after the end of time.
6 The mode of existence of time.
7 The parts of time, its division into past, present, and future.
8 The reality of the past and the future in relation to the existence of the present.
9 The extent of the present moment, instantaneity.
10 The measurement of time, sun, stars, and clocks.
11 Temporal relationships, time as a means of ordering.
12 Simultaneity or coexistence, the relativity of simultaneity, the simultaneity of cause and effect, action and passion, knowledge and object known.
13 Succession or priority and posteriority, the temporal order of cause and effect, potentiality and actuality.
14 Succession and simultaneity in relation to the association of ideas.
15 Comparison of temporal with nontemporal simultaneity and succession, the prior in thought, by nature, or in origin.
16 The knowledge of time and the experience of duration.
17 The perception of time by the interior senses, the difference between the experience and memory of time intervals.
18 Factors influencing the estimate of time elapsed, empty and filled time, illusions of time perception, the variability of experienced durations.
19 Time as a transcendental form of intuition, the a priori foundations of arithmetic, the issue concerning innate and acquired time perception.
20 The signifying of time, the distinction between noun and verb, the tenses of the verb.
21 Knowledge of the past, the storehouse of memory, the evidences of the past in physical traces or remnants.
22 Knowledge of the future, the truth of propositions about future contingents, the probability of predictions.
23 The temporal course of the passions, emotional attitudes toward time and mutability.
24 Historical time.
25 Prehistoric and historic time, the antiquity of man.
26 The epochs of history, myths of a golden age, the relativity of modernity, pseudo-archaism.


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