# Sounds and Other Denizens of Time **Opening (not a real abstract):** On the scientific worldview, space and time are taken to be the inextricable dimensions of a single structure called space-time. Everything that exists in time also exists in space. There are no instants or intervals in time detached from spatial locations. Space and time are closely intertwined even in the ordinary worldview. We ascribe reality primarily to things such as portions of matter, living organisms and concrete artifacts – that is, individual things that exist in space-time. However, the ordinary worldview seems to have room also for individual entities existing in time but not in space. Minds or souls were once prominent candidate entities of this sort, but nowadays the most favored examples are entities created within certain social and cultural practices. In this respect, Rohrbaugh (2003, 200) talks about “historical individuals” such as linguistic **Authors:** [[Vincenzo Santarcangelo and Enrico Terrone]]