From Jonathan Stevens
Your article “Time’s arrow” (8 October, p 39) seemed tacitly to incorporate Immanuel Kant’s ideas on why time flows in one direction. Time, Kant argued, may flow in all sorts of directions, but we are forever blind to this because we can never think about time (or anything else) in any way other than one thought after another.
So our understanding of the nature of time, and everything else, is defined by the limits of what we can perceive and how we think.
Oxford, UK
