 | Fred A. Chappell - 1924 - Počet stránok 96
...charm for a pragmatic mind. He is harassed by none of the doubts of St. Augustine, who exclaims : " What then, is time ? If no one asks me, I know ; if I try to explain it to one who asks, I do not know; yet I say with confidence that I know. But if nothing... | |
 | Sidney Hook - 1927 - Počet stránok 162
...HUMAN FREEDOM OF FREEDOM, one can say what St. Augustine said of time. "If no one asks me what it is, I know : if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not."59 Yet if we know how freedom is attained we are content that we know something of what it is.... | |
 | Richard De Villamil - 1928 - Počet stránok 240
...realities. Time is what is called in Logic, a homonymous, or equivocal * Saint Augustine remarked : " What then, is Time ? If no one asks me, I know ; if I seek to explain it when I am asked, I do not know." word ; such words as are called by the same name,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1927 - Počet stránok 830
...SIDNEY HOOK OF FREEDOM, one can say what St. Augustine said of time. "If no one asks me what it is, I know : if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." (Confessions Book XI, XIV). Yet if we know how freedom is attained we are content that we know something... | |
 | G. H. von Wright - 1969 - Počet stránok 36
...interest are everyday concepts, and that some of them are, in addition, scientific * Confessiones, xi, 17. ('What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.') concepts. Time is a good, perhaps the best, example of something which both scientists and philosophers... | |
 | Andrew C. Papanicolaou, Pete Addison Y. Gunter - 1987 - Počet stránok 424
...three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, and a present of things future.' "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to exptain it to one that asketh, I know not." St. Augustine, The Confessions. In: RM Hutchins and MJ... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - Počet stránok 454
...And, we understand, when we speak of it; we understand also, when we hear it spoken of by another. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not: yet I say boldly, that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not; and if nothing were... | |
 | Errol E. Harris - 1988 - Počet stránok 220
...they occasion. Passage, Movement, and Measurement Every student knows that Augustine said of time: What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know: if 1 wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not...1 Contemporary analytic philosophers, following... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - Počet stránok 552
...Either then this is time, or I do not measure times. 51 St. Augustine's famous question and answer: "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not," r '" is a particularly sharp insight into the psychology of time. I would describe it as an indeterminacy... | |
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