simultaneities

Since life in particular could under no conditions be created instantaneously – biology makes this abundantly clear, because certain required simultaneities can only result from a history – no God can be almighty.

2007 January - Telic Thoughts 2007

For the moment, we will confine ourselves to pointing out that the abstract time _t_ attributed by science to a material object or to an isolated system consists only in a certain number of simultaneities or more generally of correspondences, and that this number remains the same, whatever be the nature of the intervals between the correspondences.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

We have therefore counted simultaneities; we have not concerned ourselves with the flux that goes from one to another.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Counting simultaneities, the measurement of time is, 338, 341-2

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

It is limited to counting simultaneities between the events that make up this time and the positions of the mobile T on its trajectory.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Simultaneity, to measure time is merely to count simultaneities, 9,

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Adam Michnik describes the end of communism and 20 years of democratization in eastern Europe as a history of simultaneities and paradoxes.

Eurozine articles Eurozine Review 2009

“It’s a world of simultaneities,” said Mr. Biesenbach.

MoMA Gets Biesenbached In Euro-Curator Stampede 2007

The tendency for contemporary novelists to write in the first-person allows them to convey thoughts as they would speech “rather than getting to grips with its dynamics and complex simultaneities” he says, before concluding: “When thought becomes no more than unspoken speech, fiction’s gleaming reputation as a mirror of human consciousness will inevitably begin to tarnish”.

Mind Hacks: Thinking about thoughts 2005

The tendency for contemporary novelists to write in the first-person allows them to convey thoughts as they would speech “rather than getting to grips with its dynamics and complex simultaneities” he says, before concluding: “When thought becomes no more than unspoken speech, fiction’s gleaming reputation as a mirror of human consciousness will inevitably begin to tarnish”.

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