 | William Honyman Gillespie - God - 1843 - 422 pages
...Space to be " something merely relative, * that I hold it to be an " order of COEXISTENCES — * * For Space denotes, in " terms of possibility, an order...'' the same time, considered as existing TOGETHER ; with" out enquiring into their manner of existing. And when •' many things are seen TOGETHER, one... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Philosophy - 1890 - 410 pages
...relative, as time is ; that I hold it to be an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when •, many things are seen together, one perceives thai order of th ings among themselves.... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Monadology - 1898 - 468 pages
...relative, as time is : I hold it to be an order of co-existences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together one perceives that order of things among themselves.' The correspondence... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Monadology - 1898 - 462 pages
...relative, as time is : I hold it to be an i^W?r of co-eziVen«.i, as time is an order 'i/'snric-«/i.«n. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together one perceives that order of things among themselves.' The correspondence... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...relative, as time is; that I hold it to be an order of co-existences as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives that order of things among themselves. 5. I have... | |
 | G.W. Leibniz - History - 1975 - 756 pages
...relative, as time is: that I hold it to be an order of co-existences as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives that order of things among themselves. 3. I have... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - Philosophy - 1957 - 384 pages
...relative, as time is. I hold it to be an order of co-existences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...as existing together, without inquiring into their ways of existing. And when one sees various things together, one perceives this order of things among... | |
 | Lawrence Sklar - Philosophy - 1977 - 444 pages
...as time is; that is, I hold it to be an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...as existing together, without inquiring into their manner of existing. HG Alexander, editor, The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (Manchester, r956), pp.... | |
 | Edward Grant - Science - 1981 - 484 pages
...relative, as time is; that I hold it to be an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...same time, considered as existing together; without enquiring into their manner of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives that... | |
 | Berkeley Benson Mates Professor of Philosophy University of California - Philosophy - 1986 - 286 pages
...relative, as time is, that I hold it to be an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives that order of things among themselves.5 Essentially... | |
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I hold space to be something merely relative, as time is ; that I hold it to be an order of co-existences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order of things which exist at the same time, considered as existing... 
