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expansion beyond or abandonment of [traditional areas of] specialization, and the espousal of interdisciplinary or pan-disciplinary methodologies; (1) is a weak criterion, while (2) is a strong one. Neither of the above criteria make reference to time or temporality; for while the ontological possibly of timeless knowledge must always remain, admission of this possibility begs the question (petitio principii): e.g., what form does timeless knowledge take? how would it come to us? how could we ever be separated from such knowledge to begin with? et cetera ad nauseam. The admission is therefore a paradox (akin to Wittgenstein's seventh proposition in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."). We must conclude that the proposal of the possibility of timeless knowledge is both necessary and senseless, a conceptual counterpart to the tautologous nature of the concept of time. Should we come to possess knowledge of that which is "beneath" or "behind" time (or, alternatively, conclude we could never have lost possession of it), there would be no discernible need for further chronosophical inquiry—in the face of such eternal truth, it would instead be chronosophy as currently conceived that would appear both necessary and senseless. Hence: all disciplines are necessarily chronosophical (until proven otherwise). Caveat: for the sake of logicality, future manifestations of chronosophy may resemble more closely some methods of knowing than others; however, due to the character of the "problem" of time no chronosophical endeavor could ever be thoroughly purged of its interdisciplinary perspectives: a satisfactory theory of time must necessarily satisfy a wide variety of specifications (i.e., by definition a satisfactory or sufficient chronosophy would accommodate every office of human knowledge as pertains to the subject, time).
=== Envoi === Why should we afford time this privileged status among our speculative and empirical undertakings? A Fraserian chronosopher would argue that mediation of the problem(s) of time is essential to the creation and retention of individual and social identity. Hence, as long as we—as individuals and as social groups—continue to partake in the process of clarifying and defining our individual and collective identities over and against those of the world (in whole or in part) around us, the necessarily contemporaneous clarification and definition of the problem(s) of time must, by extension (mutatis mutandis), be universal and continuous.
== See also == Time Temporality Julius Thomas Fraser Natural Philosophy Philosophy of Space and Time Horology Cosmology Eschatology Ontology Metaphysics
== References ==
== External links == International Society for the Study of Time Homepage