# Absolute Historicism The conception that time is the most real of all realities and the vessel within which everything else exists. A recurring argument for absolute historicism is that nothing can be thought of outside time, but time can be thought of independently of everything else. If time moreover is split between on the one hand hypertime and on the other hand spacetime, there arises a dialectics on which the rest of existence can be grounded. This generates the epistemological horizon that Hegel calls *absolute knowledge*. Please compare with [[Pandialecticism]].