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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER VI
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I have at least explained exactly what I do mean by a point, what relations it involves and what entities are the relata.
If you admit the relativity of space, you also must admit that points are complex entities, logical constructs involving other entities and their relations.

Produce your theory, not in a few vague phrases of indefinite meaning, but explain it step by step in definite terms referring to assigned relations and assigned relata.

Also show that your theory of points issues in a theory of space.

Furthermore note that the example of the man in the balloon, the observer on earth, and the observer in the sun, shows that every assumption of relative rest requires a timeless space with radically different points from those which issue from every other such assumption.

The theory of the relativity of space is inconsistent with any doctrine of one unique set of points of one timeless space.
The fact is that there is no paradox in my doctrine of the nature of space which is not in essence inherent in the theory of the relativity of space.


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