...question has puzzled philosophers over the centuries. Augustine is an interesting case to the point. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, 1 do not know. Yet I state confidently that I know this:...

...dictum about time, a passage Wittgenstein also took up in his Philosophical Investigations (sec. 89): "What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, I do not know." 2 The same seems to hold for all other...

...time? 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.' (1966, 262) As always, Augustine treats questions presenting an immense complexity with exemplary brevity...

...which inevitably is to come. Saint Augustine was incisive when he wrote in Book XI of The Confessions: "What then is time: If no one asks me, I know: If...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." Notwithstanding Saint Augustine's warning as to the elusiveness of the meaning of time, nor Kant's...

...not everyone know what a festival is, anyhow?" The question is not altogether irrelevant. However, "If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asks, I know not." This sentence from St. Augustine's Confessions, although written in relation to...

...Surely we understand it when we talk about it, and also understand it when we hear others talk about it. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, I do not know. . . . We term ten days ago, let us say,...

...our work. Peter 0hrstr0m Per Hasle Aalborg, January 1995 INTRODUCTION: LOGIC AND THE STUDY OF TIME What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know: if...wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not. St. Augustine [Confessiones XI, c. XTV, xvii. I Gale p. 40] Every concept of time arises in the context...

...often easier to acknowledge than to define. What Augustine said of time can probably be said of love: "If no one asks me, I know, if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not."6 In any description love is deeply personal. The love of God in Christ poured out by the Holy...

...passage in chapter 14 of the eleventh book of his Confessions (written c. 400 AD), St. Augustine wrote: ' What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to one who asks, I know not. ' That still rings true. The relationship between subjective and objective...

...Consciousness: The Case of Ilparakuyo Maasai," CSSH 25:3 (1983): 428-56. Introduction Diane Owen Hughes What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. If someone asks me to explain, I cannot tell him. — St. Augustine The problem of time, in both history...