Book/Printed Material Some views of the time problem ...
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Image 7 of Some views of the time problem ... SJly* HnitKratig xd (Eljtragn Some Views of the Time Problem A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY BY W. BENJAMIN W. VAN...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 8 of Some views of the time problem ... 313 6 32 3- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 9 of Some views of the time problem ... CONTENTS PARTI The General Issue I. Introduction 5 1. History of the philosophical idea of time 6 II. Effect of the Doctrine of Evolution on the Problem 1. Change and time 11...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 10 of Some views of the time problem ... PART II A Comparison of the Views of Time held by Professor Eucken and Bergs on A. Progessor Eucken s Conception 53 I. Moral Argument for the Existence of the Timeless Geistes-...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 11 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM The vast amount of discussion that has centered, in modern thought, around the idea of evolution and development, has almost raised anew the whole ancient problem of...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 12 of Some views of the time problem ... SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM earlier attempts to get change into the world of things through the simple participation of empty space in the changeless Ideas, and provided his Demiurge to...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 13 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM came. The Christian conception of eternal life in the future involves no new concept of time as such. Indeed, the very fact that it is located in...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 14 of Some views of the time problem ... 8 SOME VIEWS OE THE TIME PROBLEM seriously, a final blow to any mechanical or mathematical view of time. This, evidently, Augustine saw very plainly, although he did not go far toward...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 15 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM VJ be successfully carried through is a different matter, one which can hardly be discussed here. Spinoza s 9 abstract logical world would have admitted beautifully of...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 16 of Some views of the time problem ... 10 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM ment, but time is the independent variable. It is only with reference to the constancy of the time flow that movement itself can be called...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 17 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM 11 a pioneer in evolution theory. His vision was not limited to the scholas- tic cosmology that embraced something over six thousand years. Long before Laplace, Kant...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 18 of Some views of the time problem ... 12 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM It was not until the year 1859 that empirical science came forth with a clear-cut hypothesis of evolution and, along with that, a good supply...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 19 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM 13 is no longer, Is development a fact? but rather How are we to under- stand the fact of development? Obviously the same thing cannot be true...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 20 of Some views of the time problem ... 14 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM of changeless being, to usurp all the reality in sight. 16 This is logically, if not historically, the end of the matter. Strictly modern science...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 21 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEMS 15 division, it is a matter of logical indifference whether the dividend con- tains six digits or six million of them. The rule that completely explains the...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 22 of Some views of the time problem ... 16 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM that triangle might be real in one sense without being so in the others. That it should exist as an idea in thought is not...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 23 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEMS 1 7 change, makes possible the experience of continuity. In the first place, the mere fact of change in consciousness implies an identity of some kind in...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 24 of Some views of the time problem ... 18 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM changeless. This is the literal implication of much present-day scien- tific hypothesis but, as a rule, this convenient sort of mental picturing is not presented...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 25 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEM 19 relationship must consist in distinguishing it from terms. There is something unearthly about a relation that is thus hypostasized as an independently changing existence or entity....- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 26 of Some views of the time problem ... 20 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM the order with which science deals. That does not mean that it is the only aspect of said order that is real, nor that it...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 27 of Some views of the time problem ... ASPECTS OF THE TIME PROBLEMS 21 And now, on the other hand, if we look at the matter from the stand- point of the concept of time, there are equally cogent reasons...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 28 of Some views of the time problem ... 22 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM as the functions of memory and expectation develop, we ultimately translate Change into Time, 25 etc. Perhaps these statements are not very vividly illuminating, but...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 29 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 23 time passes by, but that to just the extent to which we admit the reality of change we are bound to admit the reality of time, and...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 30 of Some views of the time problem ... 24 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM there is great enough variety to make sure that no matter what con- clusion thought might come to, it is bound to contradict a whole...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 31 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 25 Considering the question from a slightly different standpoint, we may inquire whether there are not types of experience common to us in which there is no time...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 32 of Some views of the time problem ... 26 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM could never do were we limited to the data that one indivisible instant of time would afford. To know that change is going on at...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 33 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 27 there are difficulties here. In the first place, (a) one must at best locate this real point of change in terms of the conscious present, if it...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 34 of Some views of the time problem ... 28 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM of course, which needs explanation. Kant 38 held that the order of events in time for us depends upon an abstract and necessary law of...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 35 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 29 In this connection, however, a dangerous suggestion is made, even though it is formally guarded, the suggestion that if the direction of every particle in the universe...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 36 of Some views of the time problem ... 30 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM The reason for discussing that illustration so much at length is simply that it is so often met with in the literature of the subject....- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 37 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 31 which it is being compared. No final comparison can be made on these terms. But perhaps there is another way to understand the whole con- tention. Suppose...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 38 of Some views of the time problem ... 32 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM taking the metaphor in a perfectly literal way, finding that as so taken it breaks through in spots, and then finally announcing that therefore time...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 39 of Some views of the time problem ... THE RELATIVITY OF TIME 33 that an assumption of such uniformity in nature is about the only way we can reduce our own thought life to any sort of system. In other...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
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Image 40 of Some views of the time problem ... 34 SOME VIEWS OF THE TIME PROBLEM in which time is most obviously transcended. It is not when one is lost to the world in day-dream, but rather when his grasp on...- Contributor: Van Riper, Benjamin Whitman
- Date: 1916