About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 132. Chapters: Time, Cogito ergo sum, Causality, Truth, Existence, Perception, Mind, Category of being, Motion, Universal, Subject, Identity and change, Concept, Object, Pattern, Thought, Emergence, Embodied cognition, Idea, Subject-object problem, Necessary and sufficient condition, Qualia, Conatus, Immanence, Information, Experience, Absolute time and space, Four causes, Quantity, Choice, Philosophy of self, Essence, Value, Chance, Quality, Unity, Property, List of life forms, Physical body, Principle, Matter, Meinong's jungle, Substantial form, Abstract object, Intention, Mental representation, Monad, Plenitude principle, Meaning, Elan vital, Physis, Unobservable, Bradley's regress, Balance, Notion, Transcendentals, Paradox of inaction, Mental substance, Res extensa, Pure thought, Analytical Process Report, Evidential existentiality, Metakosmia, Immaterial force. Excerpt: Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects. The temporal position of events with respect to the transitory present is continually changing; future events become present, then pass further and further into the past. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars. A simple definition states that "time is what clocks measure." Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in the International System of Units. Time is used to define other quantities - such as velocity - so defining time in terms of such quantities would result in circularity of definition. An operational definition of time, wherein one says that observing a certain number of repetitions of one...
