Method and Temporality

A Method is a Means to an End.  It therefore consists in at least two stages; but these stages are not simultaneous.  In other words, Method is inherently Temporal, and, as has been previously discussed, ordinally so, i. e. a Means precedes an End, but not vice versa.  Now, even though Time is of only marginal interest to the pioneering Rationalists and Empiricists, it is implicit in the Foundationalism that they share--they each begin with some certain element, and then derive others, e. g. more complex elements, copies, etc.  But that inattention to Time is more than incidental in both traditions--the privileging of Eternity by the Rationalists relegates Time to a subordinate status at best, and the Associationism of the Empiricists is symmetrical, and, hence, atemporal.  It is not until Kant recognizes the inadequacy of that Associationism to Causality that the fundamentality of Temporality to Experience gets recognized, though he still misses its role in Practice.  Nevertheless, to whatever extent Philosophy is Methodical, it is Temporal.