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On Order in Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Affiliation:
Trinity College
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It is generally agreed that instants are mathematical constructions, not physical entities. If, therefore, there are instants, they must be classes of events having certain properties. For reasons explained in Our Knowledge of the External World, pp. 116–20, an instant is most naturally defined as a group of events having the following two properties:

(1) Any two members of the group overlap in time, i.e. neither is wholly before the other.

Type
Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 1936 , pp. 216 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1936

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* Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.17 (1914), 441–9.Google Scholar