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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Time as a Many-Tiered Construct
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Temporal Processes
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Back Matter
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About this book
The existence of so many strangely puzzling, even contradictory, aspects of 'time' is due, I think, to the fact that we obtain our ideas about temporal succession from more than one source - from inner experience, on the one side, and from the physical world on the other. 'Time' is thus a composite notion and as soon as we distinguish clearly between the ideas deriving from the different sources it becomes apparent that there is not just one time-concept but several. Perhaps they should be called variants, but in any case they need to be seen as distinct. In this book I shall aim at characteri sing what I believe to be the three most basic of them. These form a sort of hierarchy of increasing richness, but diminishing symmetry. Any adequate inquiry into 'time' is necessarily partly scientific and partly philosophical. This creates a difficulty since what may be elementary reading to scientists may not be so to philosophers, and vice versa. For this reason I have sought to present the book at a level which is less 'advanced' than that of a specialist monograph. Due to my own background there is an inevitable bias towards the scientific aspects oftime. Certainly the issues I have taken up are very diffe rent from those discussed in several recent books on the subject by philoso phers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Three Concepts of Time
Authors: Kenneth G. Denbigh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68082-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-10757-6Published: 01 July 1981
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-68082-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 180
Topics: Mathematics, general