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Full Idea
We make a fundamental distinction between perceptions of static states and dynamic processes, …such as walking around a house, and watching a ship leave dock.
Gist of Idea
We experience static states (while walking round a house) and observe change (ship leaving dock)
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], 2 'Kantian')
Book Ref
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.35
A Reaction
This seems to be a fundamental aspect of our mind, rather than of the raw experience (slightly supporting Kant). In both cases we experience a changing sequence, but we have two different interpretations of them.
22916 | Unlike time, change goes at different rates, and is usually localised [Aristotle, by Le Poidevin] |
5983 | I disagree with the idea that time is nothing but cosmic movement [Augustine] |
22883 | It seems hard to understand change without understanding time first [Bardon] |
22890 | We experience static states (while walking round a house) and observe change (ship leaving dock) [Bardon] |
22989 | Static time theory presents change as one property at t1, and a different property at t2 [Baron/Miller] |