Absolute Time —— Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics

----- 早期近代英国形而上学的裂痕

ISBN: 9780198807933 出版年：2018 页码：253 Thomas, Emily Oxford University Press

What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Emily Thomas explores how a new theory of time emerged in the seventeenth century. The 'absolute' theory of time held that it is independent of material bodies or human minds, so even if nothing else existed (with the possible exception of God) there would be time.