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Full Idea
If time is passing, then relative to what? How could time pass with respect to itself? Further, if time passes, at what rate does it pass?
Gist of Idea
What is time's passage relative to, and how fast does it pass?
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], 4 'Pervasive')
Book Ref
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.96
A Reaction
I remember some writer grasping the nettle, and saying that time passes at one second per second. Compare travelling at one metre per metre.
| 5561 | If time involved succession, we must think of another time in which succession occurs [Kant] |
| 14615 | If time flows, then 'how fast does it flow?' is a tricky question [Smart] |
| 22934 | Time can't speed up or slow down, so it doesn't seem to be a 'process' [Le Poidevin] |
| 16265 | If time passes, presumably it passes at one second per second [Maudlin] |
| 22898 | What is time's passage relative to, and how fast does it pass? [Bardon] |
| 22999 | It is meaningless to measure the rate of time using time itself, and without a rate there is no flow [Baron/Miller] |