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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VI
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Accordingly space as a relation between objects is devoid of any connexion with time.

It is space at an instant without any determinate relations between the spaces at successive instants.

It cannot be one timeless space because the relations between objects change.
A few minutes ago in speaking of the deduction of the orthodox formulae for relative motion I said that they followed as an immediate deduction from the assumption of absolute points in absolute space.

This reference to absolute space was not an oversight.

I know that the doctrine of the relativity of space at present holds the field both in science and philosophy.


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