Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. / quote 23 of 26

Points in time are not observable

Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not observable).

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