本书是一部时间观念的演化史。作者通过确立两类原始时间经验——标度时间经验和时间之流经验——勾勒出以二者为基础衍生出来的众多时间观念的交响与变奏。从思想史的角度,发掘当代哲学和科学中时间再发现的意义。
时间观念的差异 Differences in time ; Time difference in attitudes
人类的时间观念 Peoples Ideas about Time
丢失的时间观念 lost sense of time
在不同国家的时间观念 time concept in different country
动词是一个复合的有意义的声音,它涉及时间的观念,其各组成部分自身没有意义。
A Verb is a composite significant sound involving the idea of time, with parts which have no significance by themselves in it.
所有事件都在这个匀速的时间中相互关联。不过,匀速时间的观念依赖于心智的综合能力。
Yet the notion of a uniform time within which all events can be temporally related depends upon the synthesizing capacity of a mind.
相对论的一个显著成果在于它改变了我们的时空观,结束了亚里士多德和牛顿所持的绝对时间的观念。
A remarkable consequence of relativity is the way it has revolutionized our ideas of time and space; it has put an end to Aristotle's and Newton's idea of absolute time.
But railroads revolutionized an American sense of time, their ability to travel.
但是铁路改变了美国人的时间观念,他们有能力去旅行
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