can any one define "time" in a philosophical way?

Question

in your own understanding, what is time and what it does for you?

Answer 1

Time is what stops things all happening at once

Answer 2

In my opinion, time has meaning only insofar as events happen. Time indicates the linkages between two or more events taking place.

Have you considered this!

Time has been studied by philosophers and scientists for 2,500 years, and thanks to this attention it is much better understood today. Nevertheless, many issues remain to be resolved. Here is a short list of the most important ones—what time actually is; whether time exists when nothing is changing; what kinds of time travel are possible; why time has an arrow even though the dynamical laws of the microscopic constituents of the universe appear to be incapable of distinguishing past and future; whether the future and past are real; how to analyze the metaphor of time's flow; whether the future will be infinite; whether there was time before the Big Bang; whether tensed or tenseless concepts are semantically basic; what is the proper formalism or logic for capturing the special role that time plays in reasoning; and what are the neural mechanisms that account for our experience of time. Some of these issues will be resolved by scientific advances alone, but others require philosophical analysis.
Philosophers of time are deeply divided on the question on what sort of ontological differences there are among the present, past and future. There are three competing theories. Presentists argue that necessarily only present objects and present experiences are real; and we conscious beings recognize this in the special "vividness" of our present experience. According to the growing-universe theory, the past and present are both real, but the future is not. The third and more popular theory is that there are no significant ontological differences among present, past and future because the differences are merely subjective. This view is called "eternalism" or "the block universe theory."

This controversy raises the issue of tenseless versus tensed theories of time. Eternalism or the block universe theory implies a tenseless theory. The earliest version of this theory implied that tensed terminology can be removed and replaced with tenseless terminology. For example, the future-tensed sentence, "The Lakers will win the basketball game" might be analyzed as, "The Lakers do win at time t, and time t happens after the time of this utterance." The future tense has been removed, and the verb phrases "do win" and "happens after" are tenseless logically, although they are grammatically in the present tense. Advocates of a tensed theory of time object to this strategy and say that tenseless terminology is not semantically basic but should be analyzed in tensed terms, and that tensed facts are needed to make the tensed statements be true. For example, a tensed theory might imply that no adequate account of the present tensed fact that it's now midnight can be given without irreducible tensed properties such as presentness or now-ness. So, the philosophical debate is over whether tensed concepts have semantical priority over untensed concepts, and whether tensed facts have ontological priority over untensed facts.

This article explores both what is now known about time and what is controversial and unresolved, by addressing the following questions:

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm#H3
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Answer 3

time is simpily an invention. if it was agreed to have 13 months instead of twelve, how long would our seasons run, or how old would the oldest be? time is simpliy a measurement one that controls our lives without mercy, where everything and anything has a time, a date a number. but if time were not exsiting, then where would we all stand, there be no recorded histoy, no elders no youth no years to grow older. Time is the movement of the world moving round. for as each day and night passes, time is still around.

Answer 4

Don't underestimate your power over others. The psychological shell, into which you often retreat, is the notion that you are, somehow, very small, insignificant and highly vulnerable. This idea protects you and stops you from getting ideas above your station - and therefore suffering the embarrassment of overreaching yourself. Yet, of course, it also stops you from fulfilling your true potential. Right now, if you lay down the law, nobody will dare challenge you. Or, at least, not for long!
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Answer 5

This is a great question?
Time is how we count moments in our life. Because we do use the clock so many things are associated with time.
What interest me is that God doesn't really think of time as we do. Usually his concerns are about life experiences and events in our lives!
Although the dictionary does say some neat things!
Time; indefinite
every moment there has ever been or ever will be
A period of existence;lifetime
time is also associated with music.
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Answer 6

Time is the only thing that has no beginning for if time was to begin then there must have been a "time" for time to have not existed All things that have a begining have an end and time without a beginning must then have no end!
To plan for, from deduced knowledge is a par step at any rate But when it comes to an eternity to plan for the ball park changes to religion.

Answer 7

Time is a moment where the time present is the time future in the possible, and the time past in what is most probable; what is to come is to be made probable, and what once was is still in the possible and unending, as my today will be yet another yesterday.
Future is a vital concern for the moment present, the moment that in fact is also the time past encapsulated in its entirety into a single sense of being. It would be impossible to be if concerns were lost, or if we would fail to define ourselves in terms of what we have been, or what we are now – my past, for instance, makes me what I am as who I am, without a constant realisation of which I could be just about any one. It is on the basis of this unique personal identity that I am also able to realise all my concerns about what I could be in the future.

In this particular sense the significance of a unique being is all we individually have and this unique significance is in fact the state that we experience as the moment now, or the consistent self that we sense and represent in the world around us.

We should try to be ourselves, as it is said most commonly, but what does it mean? What is self? Where in time it is? Is it in the time past, in the future, or I the illusive passing of material time now that we sense relative to other things around us like the turning of the hands of a clock on the wall? As I am changing all the time, then how could I still be the same as I am now for the next moment that will inevitably be realised in materialistic measure of time?

It is ironic in the eyes of a casual observer of time that the true self-realisation of the moment now is in fact the negation of material time. It is a state of being independent of time as a count of moments on clock in favour of a realisation of existence of a being ever present, changing but still the same, as a constantly wakeful sate in which we could see that it is not only our future a gateway to new wild possibilities, but our past too is in a state of constant flux – that as we become better aware of ourselves in time, and not only our concerns about our future change, but our understanding of our very past undergo regular transformation. What stay the same in where change is the only constant is the self, the moment where all the time of the world originate and then also come to an end.

Answer 8

Time is when something or anything happens. Events define time.... and events imply change. Thus timelessness and changeless state are one and the same thing. Therefore change defines time. Hence time is measured by the rate of change.

Answer 9

Written on a very early Egyptian stone, the words of a God,
(a Space traveller)
"Time is the seed of the Universe" !

Answer 10

Time feels like a limitation. It's a word we made up to describe something that doesn't exist...I think there should just "be"....0.o