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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER III
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Thus mind is in time and in space in a sense peculiar to itself.

This has been a long discussion to arrive at a very simple and obvious conclusion.

We all feel that in some sense our minds are here in this room and at this time.

But it is not quite in the same sense as that in which the events of nature which are the existences of our brains have their spatial and temporal positions.

The fundamental distinction to remember is that immediacy for sense-awareness is not the same as instantaneousness for nature.


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