Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2015 8) 939-952 ~ ~ ~ УДК 115 New Understanding of Time Based on the Concept of Areal Multitudes1 Pavel V. Poluyan* “Eniseygeofi zika” JSC 66 Leningradskaya Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660034, Russia Received 20.12.2014, received in revised form 06.02.2015, accepted 22.03.2015 The article puts forward a new ontology of the Time of Nature based on the following statements: 1) there is a multitude that we call “Time”; 2) this multitude consists of an infi nite number of individual elements that we call “Instants”; 3) all the elements of the given multitude have a following feature: if one element is REAL, all the other elements of the multitude are UNREAL; 4) we shall call the multitudes of such type “AREAL MULTITUDES.” It was discovered that the elementary areal ratio is a logical law of contradiction: A and NON-A form together an areal multitude of two elements. <...> In other words, if A is real, NON-A is unreal, but we see that this NON-A does not disappear, because without it, A is logically impossible. <...> Nevertheless, if A exists, NON-A does not exist in reality. <...> Thus, NON-A exists only as a possibility, it is “areal.” Formulating the law of contradiction, Aristotle, and all the logicians after him, constantly underlined the fact that A and NON-A cannot be in the same ratio at the same time. <...> An infi nite multitude of instants of Time is an areal multitude, because reality of the Present instant makes all the other instants of this infi nite multitude unreal. <...> We determine that the infi nite areal multitude is also the multitude of normalizations of the numerical axis and suggest it as a model of Time. <...> The new model determines the Time order as a symbolic sequence where the instants are the symbols of normalizations represented as unequal, actual infi nitesimals. <...> This approach allows us to detect periodization related to the mathematical constant e (Euler’s number) on the infi nite multitude of Time. <...> Introduction and Statement of the problem Augustine of Hippo was probably cunning when he said that he intuitively comprehended Time, but could not put it into words (“Confessions”, Book XI <...>