irreversibility
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irreversibilities
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It also reveals something striking: observation introduces irreversibility, which is what gives time its forward direction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
This is distinct from how the term is often used, namely with the idea that it involves on a global scale "irreversibility, which has to do with the impossibility of returning to its previous state."
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
By translating sequences of sounds from any given composition into a specific type of diagrams or graphs, the researchers were able to marshal the power of graph theory to calculate time irreversibility.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2020
Although irreversibility is seen in day-to-day life—a broken glass does not resume its original state, for instance—complete irreversibility is a statistical statement that cannot be seen during the lifetime of the universe.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Because I have often seen the flame precede the boiling of the water, and in this the irreversibility of the two perceptions has guaranteed to me the succession of the events perceived?
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
He added that the paper focuses only on mammals, so future investigations could look at whether the same irreversibilities also hold in other tetrapod lineages.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 17, 2023
Moreover, if any doubt remains as to whether Kant really confuses the two irreversibilities or necessities of succession, it is removed by the last paragraph of the passage quoted.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
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