Time depends on space, itself a fictitious entity, for any meaning

Evidence

Compared with substance, and, in particular, with body, place is, as hath been seen, a fictitious entity. Without some body placed in it, or considered as being capable of being placed in it, place would have no existence, or what, with reference to use, would amount to the same thing, there would be no purpose for which, – no occasion on which, it could be considered as having existence. … But if, putting substance out of consideration, place be a fiction, time is, so to speak, a still more fictitious fiction, having nothing more substantial to lean upon than the fiction of place. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 422

Categorization

• DEFINE: Bentham’s hierarchy of fictitious entities: place is fictitious, time is doubly fictitious because it borrows spatial metaphors.
• XREF: connects to: Space is a semi-real entity, neither fully physical nor psychical — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 474; Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809; Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808 (+1 more)

Related

• Space is a semi-real entity, neither fully physical nor psychical (similarity 0.88)
• Strictly conceived, reality is not temporal at all (similarity 0.85)
• Space adds nothing to being but is continuously spatialized through the For-itself’s ekstatic temporalization (similarity 0.78)
• All thought about the mind requires speaking in fictional spatial terms (similarity 0.78)
• Every fictitious entity must be discussed as if it were real (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Strictly conceived, reality is not temporal at all #corroborates (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 802
• Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses #contradicts (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809
• Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions #contradicts (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808
• Space is a semi-real entity, neither fully physical nor psychical #qualifies (0.78) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 474