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Full Idea
Processes can speed up or slow down, but surely the passage of time is not something that can speed up or slow down?
Gist of Idea
Time can't speed up or slow down, so it doesn't seem to be a 'process'
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 08 'Mystery')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.125
A Reaction
If something is a process we can ask 'process of what?', but the only answer seems to be that it's a process of processing. So it is that which makes processes possible (and so, as I keep saying) it is best viewed as a primitive.
| 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] |