If you take time as a relation between units without duration, then the whole time has no duration, and is not time at all. But, if you give duration to the whole time, then at once the units themselves are found to possess it ; and they thus cease to... Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay - Page 39by Francis Herbert Bradley - 1897 - 628 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Herbert Bradley - 1908 - 658 pages
...something further in the chapter which follows. Efforts have been made to explain time psychologically—to exhibit, that is to say, its origin from what comes...relation and quality recommence. The relation is not a unity, and yet the terms are nonentities, if left apart. Again, to import an independent character... | |
| Francis Herbert Bradley - 1920 - 662 pages
...into relations between units which never can exist. But, on the other side, when taken itself as a unit, it passes away into the search for an illusory...relation and quality recommence. The relation is not a unity, and yet the terms are nonentities, if left apart. Again, to import an independent character... | |
| 1927 - 340 pages
...between units without duration, then the whole time has no duration and is not time at all. But if we give duration to the whole time, then at once the...these differences cannot be asserted of the unity on the other hand, and failing that, time is helplessly dissolved."2 Further, he continues, "If we... | |
| Temenuga Trifonova - 2007 - 318 pages
...which again it cannot be. (1930: 31) Time posed the same problem of reconciling diversity and unity: If you take time as a relation between units without...these differences cannot be asserted of the unity. ...The relation is not a unity, and yet the terms are nonentities, if left apart. (33-34) Finally,... | |
| 1927 - 352 pages
...between units without duration, then the whole time has no duration and is not time at all. But if we give duration to the whole time, then at once the...these differences cannot be asserted of the unity on the other hand, and failing that, time is helplessly dissolved."2 Further, he continues, "If we... | |
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