Philosophical investigations on space, time and the continuum

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"Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness. The work is preceded by a long introduction by Stephan Körner in collaboration with Brentano's literary executor."--Routledge.com.  Read more... Abstract: Franz Brentano is one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work has considerable historic importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness.  Read more... Content: Part one: the continuum. On what is continuous -- On the measure of what is continuous -- Part two: time and time-consciousness. What the philosophers have taught about time -- On memory -- Our intuition of time is a continuum of modes of presentation and acceptance -- Shortcomings of the assumption of a single preterite mode -- The real is temporally continuous. There is no internal proteraesthesis -- If there no longer existed any things, or only a timeless god, then nothing would ever have been -- Material and modal differences in what is temporal -- The temporal as relative -- On understanding the Aristotelian Doctrine of time -- Our intuition of time is, like our intuition of space, indeterminate in relation to absolute specific differences. It is only relatively specified -- Part three: space and time. Nativistic, empiricist and anoetistic theories of our presentation of space -- The impenetrability of bodies in space rests on the fact that spatial determinations are substantial and individuating -- What we can learn about space and time from the conflicting errors of philosophers.