This document discusses the ontology of time and presents it as an important philosophical domain that is foundational to ontology, essential in physics and knowledge representation, and a basic component of language. It explores whether time is absolute or relative and what its fundamental structure is, outlining different perspectives on temporal relations and axioms.
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