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Temporality is a term often used in philosophy in talking about the way time is. The traditional mode of temporality is a linear procession of past, present, future. Some 20th century philosophers have made various interpretations of temporality in ways other than this linear manner; for example, the present moment emerging only from where our projected future is curled back into a past.

Examples: McTaggart and the The Unreality of Time
The Unreality of Time

In the philosophy of space and time, "The Unreality of Time" is the following article:J. M. E. McTaggart, 1908, "The Unreality of Time," Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17: 456-73....
, Husserl's analysis of internal time consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time
Being and Time

Being and Time is a book by Germany philosophy Martin Heidegger. Although written quickly, and despite the fact that Heidegger never completed the project outlined in the introduction, it remains his most important work and has profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, particularly existentialism, hermeneutics and deconstruction....
, George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead was an United States philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatisms....
's Philosophy of the Present, Derrida's criticisms of Husserl's analysis and Nietzsche's eternal return of the same, though this latter pertains more to historicity
Historicity

Historicity may mean:*the quality of being part of recorded history, as opposed to prehistory*the quality of being part of history as opposed to being ahistorical myth or legend...
 which temporality gives rise to.








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Temporality is a term often used in philosophy in talking about the way time is. The traditional mode of temporality is a linear procession of past, present, future. Some 20th century philosophers have made various interpretations of temporality in ways other than this linear manner; for example, the present moment emerging only from where our projected future is curled back into a past.

Examples: McTaggart and the The Unreality of Time
The Unreality of Time

In the philosophy of space and time, "The Unreality of Time" is the following article:J. M. E. McTaggart, 1908, "The Unreality of Time," Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 17: 456-73....
, Husserl's analysis of internal time consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time
Being and Time

Being and Time is a book by Germany philosophy Martin Heidegger. Although written quickly, and despite the fact that Heidegger never completed the project outlined in the introduction, it remains his most important work and has profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, particularly existentialism, hermeneutics and deconstruction....
, George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead was an United States philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatisms....
's Philosophy of the Present, Derrida's criticisms of Husserl's analysis and Nietzsche's eternal return of the same, though this latter pertains more to historicity
Historicity

Historicity may mean:*the quality of being part of recorded history, as opposed to prehistory*the quality of being part of history as opposed to being ahistorical myth or legend...
 which temporality gives rise to.

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  • Historicity (philosophy)
    Historicity (philosophy)

    Historicity in philosophy is the underlying concept of history, or the intersection of teleology and temporality . Varying conceptualizations of historicity emphasize linear progress or the repetition or modulation of past events....