ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a twofold statement. On the one hand, people have to accept the common human experience that events 'come to pass', 'take place' or 'go on', and that time 'passes', 'elapses' or 'flows'. On the other, they have to acknowledge that giving an adequate account of these aspects of time is possibly the most daunting problem that philosophy has to face. On the view of time developed in the chapter, clearly the notions of unsaturatedness and significance, which are complementary aspects of any meaningful process or series of events, must play a central role. The immediate past and the immediate future themselves are part of the content of any experience of a present event. Furthermore, only by speaking of events in this way is it possible to give an account of the consciousness of the temporal object in a way that preserves the unity of the temporal object itself.
