How do you define time?

Answer 1

Time is the essence of life. How you live, spend, dream, enjoy and accomplish...the hard part is making it to a healthy 90, looking back and realizing you made a small amount of minor mistakes. Time allows growth which creates birth and death. Death can be birth.

SO, with this said, time is how we spend our lives. It can be good and bad. Only you can define time differently according to how you spend it.

Bruce Lee once said something to the effect of wasting time, in that he would consider a meeting with someone to either be wasting time or enjoying it. If he considered time with that certain person a waste, he would not act on the invite. Therefore, spending his time wisely.

Time is somewhat like money; hard to come by, easily spent but once saved, it is an investment for later.

Answer 2

I've almost stopped trying to define time because like Augustine of Hippo said, I know what time is until you ask me, what is time? It has been said that time is the interval between the occurrence of event A and event B. But that definition seems ad hoc to me as does Aristotle's definition for time which uses the categories or priority and posteriority to define time. for me, I choose to experience rather than define time. Check out what Martin Heidegger writes about this subject.

Answer 3

I'm fond of (and take seriously) what St. Augustine said about time:
Quid est ergo tempus? si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.
"What, then, is time? If no one asks this of me, I know; if someone wishes me to explain, I don't know."

He goes on: "All the same I can confidently say that I know that if nothing passed, there would be no past time; if nothing were going to happen, there would be no future time; and if nothing *were*, there would be no present time. [...] If, therefore, the present is time only by reason of the fact that it moves on to become the past, how can we say that even the present *is*, when the reason why it *is* is that it is *not to be*? In other words, we cannot rightly say that time *is*, except by reason of its impending state of *not being*."

I'd say Augustine takes a good shot at the question. If you're interested in reading up, almost the whole of Book XI of the Confessions is devoted to a discussion of time.

Answer 4

Hours, minutes and seconds is a continuum which man ingeniously called "time". He noticed his hair, beard grow while the sun rose and set. He noticed how those he loved developed grey or white hair and died as the sun rose and set. Those around him decayed and died in that progression of nature that he noticed with the rising and setting of the sun and the appearance of the moon.

Besides that, how else define time? Except the genius among us in cosmic terms we understand?

Answer 5

There are two distinct views on the meaning of the word time.

One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view referred to as Newtonian time....
A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental human intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this second view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events.....

Answer 6

Time is given to us by GOD to do good and kind deeds to all on earth.I define TIME as an opportunity to live life to the fullest and experience all the nice things on earth.

Answer 7

"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once."

Scientifically, it is becoming increasingly likely that time is a biological function; a mode of perception, which may or may not correspond to a physical reality. Physics equations work equally well running forward or backward, but we can only conceptualize them in one direction.

Cool question.

Answer 8

Time requires up to take action NOW
Lost Time makes you live with regret
In Time makes you succeed in front of others
Out of Time makes you feel you are too slow

Answer 9

To me it is two points on a continuum. More specifically, we are on a great conveyor belt and it never stops or changes direction but no one knows how long it is.

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Answer 10

A created idea representing the measurement of duration.