"Kant believed that the concept of time is a prior condition of our minds that affects our experience of the world, but this does not explain why different human societies have had different concepts of time and have assigned different degrees of significance to the temporal aspect of phenomena. ...instead of being a prior condition, our concept of time should be regarded as a consequence of our experience of the world, the result of a long evolution. ...In recent years it has become clear that all our mental abilities are potential capacities which we can only realize in practice by learning how to use them."
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Gerald James Whitrow, Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)
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Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
deutscher Philosoph
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