[The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead]@TWC D-Link book
The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VIII
27/41

The timeless space is achieved by stringing together all these instantaneous spaces.

The points of an instantaneous space are event-particles, and the points of an eternal space are strings of event-particles occurring in succession.

But the man on Mars will never perceive the same instantaneous spaces as the man on the earth.

This system of instantaneous spaces will cut across the earth-man's system.

For the earth-man there is one instantaneous space which is the instantaneous present, there are the past spaces and the future spaces.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books