 | B. Donagan, A. Perovich, M. Wedin - Science - 1985 - 424 pages
...concrete system on the other hand, must follow Leibniz's specification of relational space and time: "space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order of things which exist at the same time ..." (Clarke-Leibniz Correspondence, Leibniz' Third Letter, para. 4). So for the concrete system to... | |
 | Paul Guyer - Philosophy - 1987 - 504 pages
...relative, as time 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...same time, considered as existing together, without enquiring into their manner of existing" (The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, ed. HG Alexander [Manchester:... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Philosophy - 1989 - 396 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 entering into their particular manners of existing. 436. See Bacon, New Organon, book I, aphorisms... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson - Philosophy - 1993 - 264 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 entering into their particular manners of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives... | |
 | R. S. Woolhouse - Philosophy - 1994 - 536 pages
...asserts, without argument, that 'I hold space to be something merely relative, as time is' and that 'space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...at the same time, considered as existing together' (L.III.4). He then promises an argument to this effect when he writes: I have many demonstrations,... | |
 | Steven Mailloux - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 268 pages
...Leibniz also held that space forms "an order of coexistences": space (he says) is "merely relative," "denotes, in terms of possibility, an order of things which exist at the same time." It is therefore 4* Representative claims may be found in Richard N. Boyd, 'The Current Status of Scientific... | |
 | Sunny Y Auyang - Science - 1995 - 288 pages
...approach is close to Leibniz's real theory. Leibniz said: "Space denotes, in terms of possibilities, an order of things which exist at the same time, considered as existing together; without enquiring into their manner of existence." 158 This is totally different from the "relational theory"... | |
 | Ezio Vailati - Philosophy - 1997 - 263 pages
...(to Sophie, 30 November 1701: GP VII, 564). 19 2.1 Space In his third letter Leibniz told Clarke that "space denotes, in terms of possibility, an order...same time, considered as existing together, without entering into their manner of existing" (Lz I1I,4). Although this account made clear Leibniz's opposition... | |
 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...purely relative, like time; space being 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, in so far as they exist together. Following the publication of the non-Newtonian Lockean view in England... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...merely relative. ... 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...at the same time, considered as existing together. . . . Space is nothing else but . . . order or relation, and is nothing at all without bodies but the... | |
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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... 
