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How should we conceive of Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2003

Michael Dummett
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Abstract

A (would-be) sophisticated answer to the question of the title might be, ‘The question is senseless. We should not conceive of time at all. We should just get on with our ordinary lives, asking and answering the usual questions, such as “What Time is it?”, “How long will it take?”, and so on, which we understand perfectly well. St. Augustine understood such questions, phrased in Latin, as well as we do. He should have been content with that, instead of bothering his head with the misbegotten metaphysical question, “What is time?”’.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Philosophy , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 387 - 396
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2003

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