We have a great competence in dealing with time. We often forget that this competence is not innate, but is learned with difficulty in the course of socialization. Despite this competence, the question that Augustine asked himself over a thousand and a half years ago still embarrasses us today. This has something to do with the trickiness of „what is?“ questions. They seem so harmless, but are actually often very misleading because they imply certain conditions that are anything but self-evident. For example, the question about time assumes, purely formally, that time is a specific, clearly definable object. But such an object cannot be demonstrated. Time exists only in language: we can talk about it, but we cannot perceive anything corresponding to it.

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