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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VIII
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If you think of them as merely spatial you are omitting the temporal element, and if you think of them as merely temporal you are omitting the spatial element.

Thus when you think of space alone, or of time alone, you are dealing in abstractions, namely, you are leaving out an essential element in the life of nature as known to you in the experience of your senses.

Furthermore there are different ways of making these abstractions which we think of as space and as time; and under some circumstances we adopt one way and under other circumstances we adopt another way.

Thus there is no paradox in holding that what we mean by space under one set of circumstances is not what we mean by space under another set of circumstances.

And equally what we mean by time under one set of circumstances is not what we mean by time under another set of circumstances.


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