What is Space?
What is Space?
Any ideas?
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Highly recommended:
Space and Time from the book "Beyond Experience: Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints," by Norman Swartz, professor emeritus of philosophy at Simon Fraser University.
Space and Time from the book "Beyond Experience: Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints," by Norman Swartz, professor emeritus of philosophy at Simon Fraser University.
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Space is a dimension or to be more specific three dimensions. Along with time which is also a dimension it makes up the four dimensional
manifold known as spacetime. Space is also the distance between objects and points. And without space nothing could exist as a thing by
definition has to possess property or dimension. And property or dimension cannot exist in no space for only nothing can exist in no space
manifold known as spacetime. Space is also the distance between objects and points. And without space nothing could exist as a thing by
definition has to possess property or dimension. And property or dimension cannot exist in no space for only nothing can exist in no space
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I think Hegel can help a lot here:
“space is the pure abstract continuity of the activity of light – not being active as such, however, but rather the form of its being uninterrupted”
I think Hegel meant: space is the purest abstract continuity of the form of light being uninterrupted, but I can be misinterpreting.
Or, put another way again insuperably much more clearly by Hegel himself:
"space is the ideal – i.e. abstract and formal – moment of the absolute self-equality of the ether"
Once more, I think Hegel meant: space is the abstract and formal moment of the absolute self-equality of the ether, but I can be misinterpreting once again.
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I think Hegel can help a lot here:
“space is the pure abstract continuity of the activity of light – not being active as such, however, but rather the form of its being uninterrupted”
I think Hegel meant: space is the purest abstract continuity of the form of light being uninterrupted, but I can be misinterpreting.
Or, put another way again insuperably much more clearly by Hegel himself:
"space is the ideal – i.e. abstract and formal – moment of the absolute self-equality of the ether"
Once more, I think Hegel meant: space is the abstract and formal moment of the absolute self-equality of the ether, but I can be misinterpreting once again.
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...to be decided by science not by philosophy or philosophers who can do nothing more than speculate premised on their own logic.
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That would be a philosopher scientists as opposed to one who is only a philosopher, and believes the human mind can think of and solve any problem with just thought. That kind of "Ivory Tower" thinking is bound to fail because it refuses to account for the real world.