time

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is a confused, sensible perception of a rational order.

But he also criticized the view of absolute time maintained by the Newtonians in his correspondence with Clarke. He satisfies both directions of criticism by regarding time as an 'order of successions'... that is, time is 'relative' in so far as it is an 'order' but not a structure, and objective in so far as it is a necessary order. This position was developed by Wolff (1719) into an account of time which regarded it as a confused, sensible perception of a rational order.

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