The body is subject to the workings of time; the mind recognises time, as well as being constituted by it. Still, what is this ethereal substance, and does it have substance in the first place? What is this thing called time? Does it actually exist and what is it made of? Can we know it in itself, or see it only as through a glass darkly? Such questions are among the oldest and most perennial subjects of philosophic speculation and wonder. It is impossible, and perhaps unnecessary, to give even an abbreviated guide to the philosophical concepts of time, but certainly thinkers from Aristotle to
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