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Ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Representation and Reality' and 'On the Nature of the Universe'

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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time

5698	We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence [Lucretius]
	Full Idea: It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility.
	From: Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.465)
	A reaction: This seems a remarkably Einsteinian remark, though he is only talking of the epistemology of the matter, not the ontology. We are not far from the concept of space-time here.