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The subject of time is so multifaceted that the papers we read to one another are extremely diverse. Each of us must take only one small area and explicate a few of its features. The casual observer might wonder, “Are these pundits really talking about the same thing?” I believe we are, and that part of our task is to explore ways of drawing together the diversity of interests.
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Donald C. Williams: “The Myth of Passage,” The Philosophy of Time, ed. Richard M. Gale (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday 1967; Anchor Books A573 ), pp. 98–116.
Hermann Weyl: “Space and Time, the Transcendental External World,” Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science ( New York: Atheneum 1963 ), pp. 95–137.
Paul Fraisse: The Psychology of Time ( New York: Harper & Row 1963 ), pp. 82–3.
Jean Piaget: Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (New York: Norton 1962; Norton Library 1971), pp. 187–8. See also pp. 189–92. The French title is La Formation du Symbole. What I have called the “non-focal character of early awareness” is an interpretation of what Piaget speaks of as the absence of “mental images, interiorised language, and the beginnings of conceptual intelligence.” He then shortly describes this phase as one of “interiorised intelligence, [which] only gives rise to organised memory when speech and the system of concepts exist.”
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Lawrence, N. (1975). Temporal Passage and Spatial Metaphor. In: Fraser, J.T., Lawrence, N. (eds) The Study of Time II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50121-0_13
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