 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 388 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... | |
 | Nick Huggett - Philosophy - 1999 - 292 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... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...tive, 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... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - Europe - 2000 - 267 pages
...time; it is an order of coexistences, just as time is an order of successions. For space signifies, in terms of possibility, an order of things which exist at the same time, insofar as they exist together, without determining their particular way of existing."39 Again: "One... | |
 | Charles M. Sherover - Philosophy - 2001 - 628 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... | |
 | Eliot Deutsch - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 324 pages
...forcefully denies that space is some kind of (Newtonian) real entity in favor of its being a relation—"an order of things which exist at the same time, considered as existing together." Hence, "there is no space where there is no matter." As Bertrand Russell puts it, "Space for Leibniz... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Katharine Park, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - History - 2003 - 833 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... | |
 | Paul Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 442 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.16 Clearly Leibniz holds that there is a "third way" to account... | |
 | 342 pages
...parts, it is not a thing which can belong to God. As for my own opinion, 1 have said, more than once, that I hold space to be something merely relative,...inquiring into their particular manner of existing. And when many things are seen together, one perceives that order of things among themselves — If... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Mathematics - 1949 - 236 pages
...I hold space to be an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. For space denotes an order of things which exist at the same time, considered as existing together.' The peculiar excellence of this definition did not become fully manifest until the twentieth century,... | |
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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... 
