28 Sept. 1814

Logic

Ch.2. Ontology

Entities classed

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Time. Be it as it may in regard to Place, that the entity designated by the word Time is but a fictitious entity, will it is believed be sufficiently manifest.

Different altogether from each other are the perceptions or ideas presented by the word place and the word time. Yet as often as time is spoken of it is spoken of as if it were a modification of, or the same thing as, place.

Like place, time - or at least any /any given/ portion of time is spoken of in the character of a receptacle. As at /in/ such or such a place things are done in such or such a time - things are done at such a time. As portions of space or place are long or short, great or small, so are portions of time. In the same sense we say a quantity of time or a space of time. As things /bodies/ are considered /spoken of/ as going to and /or/ from such or such a place; so operations are considered as /spoken of/ as going on from and to such or such a portion of

time.

{But} of every receptacle all the several parts are coexistent; of any portion of time no two parts how small soever, are co-existent. Of any given portion of time, no two of the parts are coexistent with relation to each, all are successive. By /In/ the very time /import of the/ term co-existent the idea of unity /identity/ in respect of time /of the portion of time supposed to be occupied/ as by the word succession that of diversity is by necessity implication /of necessity/ implied.

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