Hume’s Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time

Author:

Slavov Matias1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Social Sciences , Tampere University , 33014 , Tampere , Finland

Abstract

Abstract I argue that Hume’s philosophy of time is relationist in the following two senses. 1) Standard definition of relationism. Time is a succession of indivisible moments. Hence there is no time independent of change. Time is a relational, not substantial feature of the world. 2) Rigid relationism. There is no evidence of uniform natural standard for synchronization of clocks. No absolute temporal metric is available. There are countless times, and no time is privileged. Combining 1) and 2) shows that Hume’s ontology of time is thoroughly relationist.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Philosophy

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