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Change proves merely empirical contingency, that is to say, that the new state could not have existed without a cause, which belongs to the preceding time. But how and by what can we fix and determine this point of time, unless by that which already exists? By what fiction we apply the idea of time, even to what is unchangeable, and suppose, as is common, that duration is a measure of rest as well as of motion, we shall consider [Sect 5.] afterwards. - In order to make these experiments, let us suppose I am m company with a person, whom I formerly regarded without any sentiments either of friendship or enmity.
Possession during a long tract of time conveys a title to any object. (a) Time is not something which subsists of itself, or which inheres in things as an objective determination, and therefore remains, when abstraction is made of the subjective conditions of the intuition of things.