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As has been said, the notion of the temporal order was pre-scientific and was based on publicly agreed experience. Nevertheless it had proved entirely adequate for the purpose of giving dates and times to events, and of course relativistic effects were still unknown.
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Denbigh, K.G. (1981). The Objectivity2 of Time. In: Three Concepts of Time. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68082-3_3
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