2006-06-27 07:55:31 · 12 answers · asked by how it feels 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
what is the illusion of tense???
2006-06-27 08:04:18 · update #1
Time's too complex for ANY language. English has, if you count ALL of them - active voice and passive voice, simple and continuous tenses - a total of 24.tenses.
Bahasa Indonesian has one - tense is denoted by time adverbs (such as yesterday) or by other tense indicators, such as sudah, meaning already.
But both languages can and do present difficulties in specifically defining the exact time frame meant.
In English, the present perfect tenses are so difficult that even native speakers quite often use them incorrectly.
2006-06-27 09:04:32 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 11⤊ 2⤋
The illusion of the tense is that there is no time, and there was non, neither there will ever be. No time past, no time future, and time present but a fleeting moment. I would call it mine if it were not to break like a tiny heart into a spec of golden mist on heavens above - I remember time in English tense as the sadness of a passing season.
2006-06-28 02:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not an illusion. It is real and is something that can be measured. The measurements however, are completely abstract. We humans measure time by the setting and rising of the sun, or the Earth's orbit around the sun and so forth. For instance, what we call a "day" is only a "day" on Earth. But, a minute, however, is a minute no matter where you are.
2006-06-27 18:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by manonfire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The english language is too complex for it's own good. Never mind about time.
2006-06-28 01:50:29 · answer #4 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so!" - Douglas Adams
Time is an abstract concept, anything abstract is by definition, beyond the scope of mere words to describe. Yet despite this we all learn how to tell the time, so that would suggest that we each have a not too dissimilar concept of what time is.
2006-06-27 08:05:10 · answer #5 · answered by blank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is an illusion, created by the changing of the light and the changes in the world around us and the travelling of our bodies throughout our lives.
2006-06-27 08:01:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is the best definition :A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future
2006-06-27 08:01:39 · answer #7 · answered by huge001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is an illusion.
2006-06-27 07:59:10 · answer #8 · answered by mizike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe some details would help.
2006-06-27 08:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh
yes!
every one of course can understand your question
they are so much cleverer than i am
2006-06-27 08:05:01 · answer #10 · answered by vikalka2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋