title: [Time from the viewpoint of Cantor's and post-Cantorian set theory--a contribution to the founding of chronobiology].
abstract: There is given a survey of the evolution of the idea of time in the mankind's thinking from the beginning down to the term's application in sciences and in the philosophy. As one can point out from some languages, living as well as extincted ones, the words for time are derived etymologically from several roots or stems, respectively, which mostly represent different meanings. But by increasing abstraction in all civilized languages, the process of stripping the different words of their concrete accompaniments led up to a narrow of the diverse meanings which converged towards the common understanding of time in modern sciences. Nevertheless time is no unequivocal term as one can show by linguistic and mathematical analysis. Especially by means of the theory of differential equations and the set theory, the chimerical nature of time is demonstrable, so that time is only an abstraction of abstractions.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Anatomie der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Scharf
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D002909:Chronobiology Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013995:Time; D013998:Time Perception
vernacular_title: Die Zeit aus der Sicht der Cantorschen und Nach-Cantorschen Mengentheorie--ein Beitrag zur Fundierung der Chronobiologie.