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The question of time preoccupied philosophers already in Antiquity and in its various interpretations in history it has known several culminations. Strangely enough, time does not fall into any ontological category, for all of them depend upon it. In fact, the various modes of existence (e.g., reality, ideality, fictive existence, absolute existence) are to be distinguished fundamentally by their relation to time which their respective ontological structures indicate as being either necessary (real existence, which allows change and action) or inadmissible (ideal existence which does not comport the possibility of change), etc. The question thus emerges — in virtue of what does time play such a basic role with respect to ontology?
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Tymieniecka, AT. (1997). Life’s Primogenital Timing. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy. Analecta Husserliana, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5460-4_1
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