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Idea of Duration and its Simple Modes An essay concerning human understanding | ||
1. Duration is fleeting extension.
There is another sort of distance, or length, the idea whereof we get not from the permanent parts of space, but from the fleeting and perpetually perishing parts of succession. This we call duration; the simple modes whereof are any different lengths of it whereof we have distinct ideas, as hours, days, years, etc., time and eternity.
Chapter XIV
Idea of Duration and its Simple Modes An essay concerning human understanding | ||