ABSTRACT
The connexion between consciousness and time is important not only in showing the difference between time and space, but in refuting certain positivist analyses of time in terms of change, and in establishing the continuity of time independently of any physical considerations about the nature of change or of space. Although consciousness is only one aspect of personality, and although the connexions between time and modality and time and change are also fundamental, nevertheless it is as conscious beings that people first become aware of time. To talk of time going fast or slow is itself paradoxical. Many philosophers have noticed it, and have sought to forbid these locutions altogether. Public or objective time is constructed on these two bases: each person is conscious of an amount of time passing, but does not naturally agree with others on how much time has passed.
