41/43 My own view is a belief in the relational theory both of space and of time, and of disbelief in the current form of the relational theory of space which exhibits bits of matter as the relata for spatial relations. The distinction which I have just pointed out between time and space in their connexion with matter makes it evident that any assimilation of time and space cannot proceed along the traditional line of taking matter as a fundamental element in space-formation. This erroneous presupposition is vague and fluid in Plato's _Timaeus_. The general groundwork of the thought is still uncommitted and can be construed as merely lacking due explanation and the guarding emphasis. |