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Mar 31, 2018 at 20:54	comment	added	David Richerby		@BenVoigt The question asks "'Position' is to 'space' as what word is to 'time'?" That is, it wants us to fill in the blank in "'Position' is to 'space' as ______ is to 'time'." "Eternity" would be an answer if the question was "'Position' is to 'space' as 'time' is to what?" but (a) that's not the question; (b) "time" would be a valid answer to that question, too.
Mar 31, 2018 at 19:02	comment	added	Ben Voigt		You've correctly stated that "time" is the correct word in the third spot in the analogy, but didn't supply the missing word (which is actually the fourth spot). I suggest that eternity and history both can play that role, completing the analogy: Position is to space as time is to eternity.
Mar 30, 2018 at 2:39	comment	added	Barmar		For less specific times, we use words like "day", "month", "year", etc.
Mar 29, 2018 at 20:53	comment	added	1006a		@Jay I agree—to my mind, that makes this answer even more appropriate. A "location" is not a singularity; it could be one square nanometer, or several city blocks, or a continent, depending on the thing being located; similarly, "time" can be a single instant or a geological eon, e-tc. "Where are you, and what time is it?" "I'm at GPS coordinate X, at 2018-03-29 20:53:42z" OR "I'm in the Milky Way Galaxy, estimated 14 billion years post-Big Bang."
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:11	comment	added	Jay		"Moment" and "instant" both have connotations of a very short, specific time. Like one might say, "The instant that Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the Roman Republic was doomed", but you wouldn't say, "The instant of the Roman Republic was from 509 BC to 27 BC". You might say, "The time of the Roman Republic was from 509 BC to 27 BC".
Mar 28, 2018 at 9:11	history	answered	David Richerby	CC BY-SA 3.0