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* The ''history of the concept of time'' is the ''history of the discovery of time'' and the ''history of its conceptual interpretation''. ...it is the ''history of the question of the being of entities'', the history of the attempts to uncover entities in their being, borne by the particular understanding of time, by the particular level of conceptual elaboration of the phenomenon of time. Hence, in the end, the history of the concept of time is more accurately ''the history of the decline'' and ''the history of the distortion of the basic question'' of scientific research into the being of entities. It is the history of the incapacity to pose the question of being in a radically new way and to work out its fundamentals anew—an incapacity which is grounded in the being of [[w:Dasein|Dasein]].
** [[Martin Heidegger]], University of Marburg Lectures for the course "Prolegomena zu einer Phänomenologie von Geschichte und Natur" (1925) as quoted in ''History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena'' (2009) Tr. Theodore Kisiel<!--p.7-->
* Any concepts or words which have been formed in the past through the interplay between the world and ourselves are not really sharply defined with respect to their meaning: that is to say, we do not know exactly how far they will help us in finding our way in the world. We often know that they can be applied to a wide range of inner or outer experience, but we practically never know precisely the limits of their applicability. This is true even of the simplest and most general concepts like "[[existence]]" and "[[space]] and time". Therefore, it will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute [[truth]]. <br> The concepts may, however, be sharply defined with regard to their connections. This is actually the fact when the concepts become part of a system of axioms and definitions which can be expressed consistently by a mathematical scheme. Such a group of connected concepts may be applicable to a wide field of experience and will help us to find our way... But the limits of the applicability will in general not be known, at least not completely.
** [[Werner Heisenberg]], ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'' (1958) p. 92. Lectures delivered at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Winter 1955-56.
* '''Time is a game played beautifully by children.'''
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