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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER III
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They form the complete general fact which is all nature now present as disclosed in that sense-awareness.

It is in this second classification of events that the differentiation of space from time takes its origin.

The germ of space is to be found in the mutual relations of events within the immediate general fact which is all nature now discernible, namely within the one event which is the totality of present nature.

The relations of other events to this totality of nature form the texture of time.
The unity of this general present fact is expressed by the concept of simultaneity.

The general fact is the whole simultaneous occurrence of nature which is now for sense-awareness.


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