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4. The concept of time - and correspondingly the concept of space - has changed in time. 1.) According to Newton, time and space exist independently from all physical objects in the universe. There is a global time, a universal tick-tock, which cannot be influenced by physical objects. It goes on also in empty space.
@GlenTheUdderboat What I wrote was a conclusive summary of various interrelated theories of Mulla Sadra. I did link the Stanford's article in the beginning where the idea that time is a perception of change/motion is mentioned implicitly where it descries "time as a dimension of existence, as an analytic property of substantial motion, having no existence independently."
1. Yes, there are things beyond time. It takes time to go from point A to point B in space. The speed is defined as (change in distance)/ (change in time). Therefore change in time can be defined as (change in distance)/ (speed). If speed is infinite then change occurs in zero time. Events in zero time are beyond time.
or arranged in the order of space and time; ad 2: We do not have mental pictures in the sense of a copy of external objects. Instead we construct experience according to organizing rules. These rules are the categories, see B102ff "On the Pure Concepts of the Understanding or Categories" from Critique of Pure Reason.
131 1. See Zeno's Paradoxes : The Arrow : "This argument against motion explicitly turns on a particular kind of assumption of plurality: that time is composed of moments (or ‘nows’) and nothing else. Consider an arrow, apparently in motion, at any instant. First, Zeno assumes that it travels no distance during that moment—‘it occupies ...
GR pictures time as a dimension. But both theories are (almost entirely) reversible, and leaving a conundrum about where the initial low entropy state of the universe came from, and how come irreversibility is such a dominant feature of our experience. In short, we don't know what time is, & our best theories are incompatible.
It is only Relativity that explicitly pictures a block universe. It's wrong to portray science as monolithic or unified in how it regards time. Proposals for quantum-gravity theories always involves challenging the General Relativity picture because it has proved impossible to apply the principles that led to canonical quantisation of the other ...
As beings we are perceivers: we must be in order to even see and judge something a fact. There is no perception without a human subject--but so long as the filter of human subjectivity is present we simply lack a basis for calling anything a fact. The human mind isn't a camera snapping pictures of things; it isn't a passive neutral mirror.
This means that the concept of time is there only because motion of the object was started (born) and motion of the object is going stop (die). It has been said that time is relative to gravity. It is related to gravity. As a concept, time is there because motion of the objects starts and stops.
Wittgenstein compared the concept of logical pictures (German: Bilder) with spatial pictures. The picture theory of language is considered a correspondence theory of truth. In fact, from a translation of Tractatus: 2.2 The picture has the logical (logico-pictorial) form of representation in common with what it pictures (depicts).