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This consideration of duration, as set out by certain periods and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that, I think, which most properly we call TIME.
John Locke
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Book II, Chapter XIV; Exact wording and attribution checked. Philosophical account of duration, subjective succession, and measurement; historical theory rather than modern physical doctrine.
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