Duration is an univocal term that refers to the way we think about the becoming-time or b-t. Although there are several ways of conceiving the b-t, duration is an univocal concept because there is only one b-t.
Duration in some thinkers and scientists:
- Heraclitus: duration = becoming.
- Isaac Newton: The duration is a mathematical entity (idea). Ideas are unchanging. Although he admitted that time flows inexorably.
- Immanuel Kant: duration is a priori. The b-t would be a noumenon.
- Henri Bergson: Duration is a quality of consciousness. He rejected mathematical time.
- Albert Einstein: duration is a space dimension.
- Elvis Sibilia: Duration is the relation between two ideas "a and b" where "a" is before "b". As we see duration is a mental process. The b-t exists and is a posteriori.
For physicist time does not exist or does not flow because they always work with math, and we know that mathematical entities are ideas (unchanging).
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