Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Dec. 2011
The concept of second is a concept that is used primarily to designate the unit of time that lasts only an instant and from which the minutes, hours and successively the days are composed, etc. 60 seconds joined together make a minute while an hour is made up of 3600 seconds. It is important point out that when we speak of the second with this meaning, we are talking, from the grammatical point of view, of a noun and not an adjective.
The notion of time in such a detailed way is undoubtedly a relatively current phenomenon that had to watch with the emergence of a capitalist society in which the exploitation from time to time meant getting bigger and bigger profits and profit. In this way, the formulas and units that were created to measure the passage of time are artificial and stop putting the seen in natural phenomena (such as sunset) to put them into logical elements and empirically measurable.
However, the second term does not have a single meaning if not it is also used to refer to the
character not to be in first place, for example when talking about a person who came second in a race. In this case, the second or second word becomes an adjective that can be qualifying as well as ordinal, that is, related to order. It is visible how the word, then, almost completely changes the meaning it had when we spoke of the second in terms of time.The second place is always a conflictive place or position since it assumes that one has not been able to obtain the best location or qualification. This is clearly visible when we talk about sports competitions, in confrontations, etc., since the second is always the person who has not achieved develop the best level if not that it has been behind someone who did. In this sense, even when the second position is accidental, such as a second sibling, the situation can also involve conflicts since the jealousy, the competitions, etc., between the brothers.
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