Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal
Abstract
The theory is, first, that time is not a being, a thing, or a substance in the world, nor does it operate as a power, a force, or a destiny in our lives. It has no external existence, and all speech attributing reality to it is unwittingly metonymic, meaning that the word “time” is used by a sort of obtuse poetry for processes that have better names of their own. The theory has a second element, namely that it would be a better world, and we would be better off, if more people thought that time was unreal and spoke accordingly.
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Humanities Symposium
Recommended Citation
Brann, Eva
(2014)
"World Without Time,"
Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 5, Article 11.
Available at:
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol5/iss1/11