Time as a Prerequisite of Being When Expressed through the Present Variant: An Analysis of Time’s Relationship to Being

Abstract

Continuity describes time as a continuum that is indistinguishable from any other occurrence. Since being is confirmed through time, for time to be accurately expressed, its continuum can only be expressed as a temporality. Although time can be understood as an expression of the presence of being that confirms its existence, the notions of duration (Locke and Descartes), succession (Leibniz), and continuum (Brentano) cannot confirm its existence. Neither is time confirmed through presence (Heidegger) as a simple manifestation of being. There must be something else that affixes time to being and that is time’s present variant as a confirmation of itself. This is to say that the presence of being is not a confirmation unless the latter is subject to a timely variant; otherwise, time would be merely added to complete being as if overcoming a deficiency.