Full Idea
It is very tough to see how we could understand what change is without understanding what time is.
Gist of Idea
It seems hard to understand change without understanding time first
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], Intro)
Book Reference
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.4
A Reaction
This thought is aimed at those who are hoping to define time in terms of change. My working assumption is that time must be a primitive concept in any metaphysics.