Most of us think of time as a deadline; a ticking clock around your wrist, an alarm clock by your bed-side; or perhaps, a collection of empty boxes on a calendar. It may seem as if it’s uniform and ...

With clocks, we measure the numerical order of a material change, i.e., motion running in space. There is no experimental evidence that clocks measure time. It is convenient to replace the concept of ...

Numbers can be used most flexibly to quantify, rank and identify. 'Cardinal' number refers to quantitative number assignments assessing set size (numerosity), whereas 'ordinal' number applies to ...