The continuity and prolongation of time
„We immediately know only the present moment, which alone immediately exists. The future we only conjecture; the past we remember, or think we remember. What do we remember? Our own experienced thoughts and feelings. But a thought or feeling cannot be resuscitated; for when it is past that very thought ceased to exist. Neither can anything similar exist; for similarity consists in the likeness of two feelings for a mind which feels them both and compares them. But two feelings at different times cannot be compared, because they do not exist together.
Thus, all we know is memory. We cannot go behind it.”
Charles S. Peirce, The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, Band 2: S. 249
Thus, all we know is memory. We cannot go behind it.”
Charles S. Peirce, The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, Band 2: S. 249
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