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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.
| 4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
| 4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
| 4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
| 4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
| 4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
| 21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |