ETHICAL REALISM

Time is a creation of the mind, a concept, a theory, merely a mental construct; a useful fiction of human imagination... The time did not change at all during the period from the first moment of what is commonly referred to as the "year 1,000" until the first moment of the "year 2,000", everything just moved in the eternal present for the duration of that period; and the duration of the movement of things during that period is just a measurement made by making a comparison - a comparison of the duration of that movement in the eternal present, to (for the purpose of this example) the number of times that the Earth makes a revolution in its orbit around the Sun in the eternal present during the duration of the movement being measured... Time is a measurement, like a mile, a yard, and an inch are measurements. A mile, and a yard, and an inch, do not exist as things in and of themselves in the physical world, they are all merely mental constructs, ideas, fictions of human imagination;..