PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT OF TIME

Let us imagine a philosophical concept of time! GP Aksenov, in the "reasons of time" (Editorial Moskva.. URSS. 2000), wrote: "What is time? There is no more clear-cut answer to this question except: "Time - that is what is measured in hours," - now in our knowledge there does not exist. The general opinion of scientists, the time, like space, is indeterminate concept. (In Moscow, the first of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, and then at the Moscow University for the past sixteen years, attending a seminar on "Study of the phenomenon of time." By itself, the case in the entire scientific life, and apparently unique. Of course, there are periodic workshops on various problems of time, meet the occasion or more or less regularly. At the Moscow seminar heard reports of weekly or every two weeks throughout the school year, not counting some of the other special sessions. Created a seminar and permanent directs a senior fellow of biological faculty of Moscow State University Alexander Petrovich Levich . In recent years, began publishing works of the seminar, which is translated into English. That conclusion, AP Levich from the preface to the last book, published by a group of authors of the seminar: "Time - one of the few elusive and beyond the control of human beings to the will of the world that care about the feelings and the minds of contemporaries no less than their distant predecessors ... In the present time, the natural sciences - the original and undefinable concept. (Gnedenko, 1996, p. 6)..) But if time is simply a myth, such as "angels" or "hell", then why is it used in science? If it is just a word, philosophical concept, a purely mental perfect design applied to the reality, similar to such categories as "opportunity" or "quality", which in no way be measured, why is it measured? Perhaps it is the ordinary human feeling is, for example, as "sour", "sweet", "salty"? With such "samples", however, began chemistry, remains what we see in the language: "oxygen", "soft water". Is not it the subject of everyday knowledge, similar notions of "heaven" or "horizon", long obsolete and disappeared from scientific use? Still, the characters in any scientific formula, meaning time and space - "t" and "l", not an imprint or religious feelings, or a philosophical concept, not the subjective experience of our senses, but something related to the objective nature. Time flows like something the same for all, absolutely strict and all specified devices for the needs of the scientific, public and social life. Almost every minute we think we remember about this matter as an uncertain time, and speaking with others, now and then discussing life, period, time lines, we hurry to catch, we lingered and thousands more are doing things related to the passage of time. In the frequency dictionary of Russian language among the significant notional words, the word "time" is in third place, and if you fold it with another almost as much-used - the "year", they will come to the first position, edging out the word that we use as appeared most often - "I". Despite this frequency of use of the word "time", a large proportion of books and articles written about him very hard language, uncomfortable pronounce the words. In no other area of philosophy and science there is no bunching property, copyright, no generally accepted terminology, as here. Indeed, confusion and mutual misunderstanding arises because of the science of the nature of time and space there. There is the science of measuring time and space and everything here is easier, the technical side replaces conceptual. But there was no separate "tempologii", "hronomii" or even something like that no, not developed. This region has yet to break away from philosophy. Indeed, strictly complexity and confusion is an index of listen, unborn science. She still drags placenta philosophical concepts, tries to get on his feet, that is to replace the philosophical categories on solid scientific terms. All publicly available dictionaries put the question of "essence", "essence" of time. Everyone wants to say directly what it is. However, this issue does not rise, because the answer is very unclear and boils down to that time - it is something like an abstraction, pointing to the public throughout. "