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Full Idea
Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing.
Gist of Idea
Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.IV)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.270
A Reaction
An off-beat philosophical view of the question. Sounds more like a consequence of time than its essential nature.
| 13228 | There is no time without movement [Aristotle] |
| 20920 | If there were many cosmoses, each would have its own time, giving many times [Aristotle] |
| 1903 | If motion and rest are abolished, so is time [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 19384 | Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz] |
| 2100 | Space and time are purely relative [Leibniz] |
| 13181 | Time is the order of inconsistent possibilities [Leibniz] |
| 4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
| 2608 | For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer] |
| 2949 | We have the confused idea that time is a process of change [Lockwood] |
| 9504 | The relational view of space-time doesn't cover times and places where things could be [Bird] |