We are thus, in expounding an alternative doctrine, driven to the use of either strange terms or of familiar words with unusual meanings.

This victory of the orthodox theory over language is very natural.

Events are named after the prominent objects situated in them, and thus both in language and in thought the event sinks behind the object, and becomes the mere play of its relations.

The theory of space is then converted into a theory of the relations of objects instead of a theory of the relations of events.

But objects have not the passage of events.