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The Philosophical Significance of the Relativistic Conception of Time

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For relativity, time is an asymmetrical relationship is not unidirectional. Which brings us back to the profoundly anti-intuitive character of relativity for which it makes no sense to introduce a qualitative difference between the directions of the time. Also with relativity emerges a physical theory which tends to “dissolve” the physical entities in the meaning and function of integration of critical experimental dimension that they perform within a given natural horizon. From this point of view is the relativity does not destroy the concept of synthetic a priori and the transcendentalism of Immanuel Kant. Consequently, the reduction in Kant’s time to causality retains all its importance heuristic and epistemological. Even so, thanks to this reduction, it is possible to assign a time to reach its full objective: the temporal dimension is objective because reducible causal order.

We step and do not step into the same rivers, we are and are not.

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Minazzi, F. (2014). The Philosophical Significance of the Relativistic Conception of Time. In: Albeverio, S., Blanchard, P. (eds) Direction of Time. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02798-2_15

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