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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER II
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Accordingly causal space belongs to a different order of reality to apparent space.

Hence there is no pointwise connexion between the two and it is meaningless to say that the molecules of the grass are in any place which has a determinate spatial relation to the place occupied by the grass which we see.

This conclusion is very paradoxical and makes nonsense of all scientific phraseology.

The case is even worse if we admit the relativity of time.
For the same arguments apply, and break up time into the dream time and causal time which belong to different orders of reality.
I have however been discussing an extreme form of the bifurcation theory.

It is, as I think, the most defensible form.


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