This survey is intended as a starting point for thinking about some of the questions that we will discuss in the class. There is a little space for jotting down reasons for your answers, but you won’t have much time for doing that. Still, you should think about your reasons because I will ask you to present your reasons for one answer as your first ungraded writing assignment.
1) Could there be time if there was no change?
☐ yes
☐ no
Reasons:
2) Is time more a feature of the world outside us or of our internal thought and experience?
☐ world outside
☐ internal thought and experience
Reasons:
3) Is time more like a container for things that happen or a relation among them?
☐ container
☐ relation
Reasons:
4) Circle numbers below to assign past, present, and future each a degree of reality on a scale of 0 (not at all real) to 10 (as real as can be):
| past: | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
| present: | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
| future: | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
Reasons:
5) How long does the present last? (Use any scale that seems appropriate; and, if you think the present is a point in time, give its length as 0.)
length:
Reasons:
6) Are the past and future separate from the present or are they parts or aspects of it?
☐ separate from the present
☐ parts or aspects of the present
Reasons:
7) Is time continuous or a series of discrete moments?
☐ continuous
☐ discrete
Reasons:
8) Is it possible to complete a task that involves infinitely many actions?
☐ yes
☐ no
Reasons: