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Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2017

Pages: 271-277

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319444178

Volle Referenz:

Reuben Hersh, ""Now" has an infinitesimal positive duration", in: Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstrakt

This article offers the nonstandard or "hyperreal" line as a model for Time, thereby to resolve a persistent controversy of the meaning of "Now." As a "monad" in the Leibnitzian time axis, "Now" is a time interval shorter than any standard positive interval, yet longer than any infinitesimal.

Publication details

Verlag: Springer

Ort: Berlin

Jahr: 2017

Pages: 271-277

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319444178

Volle Referenz:

Reuben Hersh, ""Now" has an infinitesimal positive duration", in: Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Berlin, Springer, 2017