TIME AS A PHILOSOPHICAL ENIGMA: A PROBE INTO SPATIOTEMPORALITY

ABSTRACT The crux of the matter in this work is that time is an enigma. Fundamentally understood to be mysterious in this sense, time is, therefore, interpreted from a metaphysical perspective in terms of its nature and its model. The presentation of time as a presentist model is hinged upon the fact that time is about the here and now, which implies that time is cyclical-a recurrence of the same by virtue of how the past is what informs the present, bringing about sameness in events. On the other hand, by the eternalist model of time, the study showed that the future is not shaped by past events, making time linear as a progressive state of events. The examination of this enigma provided a basic understanding of the actuality of motion in relation to concrete events, the possibility of abstract events in relation to an unexperienced future, as well as transgression over spatiotemporality as a Being's demystification of time. The results from this examination is brought to bear by the analytic method, which we used to probe into ambiguous and vague concepts in the study of the enigmatic nature of time. vill