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Time and the Instant

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The changing but timeless ‘instant of being there’, although certainly less indigestible than motionless arrows or races run in some weird, slow motion film, still should be looked into. Its ‘sense of paradox’ as Quine would put it, ‘needs some sapping’.

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© 1970 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Mes, G.M. (1970). Time and the Instant. In: Mundus Cognobilis and Mundus Causalis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3260-5_10

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