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Jul. 10, 2018
Where the days go
Book review: Carlo Rovell's "The Order of Time"
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
What is time? Is it something real, or is it simply part of our human perceptual framework, one of the categories of pure understanding Kant posited in the 18th century? Those categories, he believed, require that episodic actions be sequenced out and not experienced in a simultaneous mush. Is time something that actually exists "out there" or is it a useful measurement of change, with no actuality in and of itself? Carlo Rovelli is one of those scientists and scienti...
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