Concept
Space
Overview
three-dimensional extent in which objects exist and events occur
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1. Space is not a conception which has been derived from outward experiences. For, in order that certain sensations may relate to something without me (that is, to something which occupies a different part of space from that in which I am); in like manner, in order that I may represent them not merely as without, of, and near to each other, but also in separate places, the representation of space must already exist…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
The chapter “SECTION I. Of Space.” is titled for Space; names Space several times.
The intermediation of this physical continuum, capable of representation, is indispensable; because we can not represent space to ourselves, and that for a multitude of reasons. Space is a mathematical continuum, it is infinite, and we can represent to ourselves only physical continua and finite objects. The different elements of space, which we call points, are all alike, and, to apply our definition, it is…
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
The chapter “SPACE AND ITS THREE DIMENSIONS” is titled for Space; names Space several times.
Thus if the lorry halts at some point P of space {alpha} which lies on the line r, it is now moving along the line s of space {beta}. This is the theory of relative motion; the common matrix is the bond which connects the motion of {beta} in space {alpha} with the motions of {alpha} in space {beta}. Motion is essentially a relation between some object of nature and the one timeless space of a time-system. An…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
The chapter “SPACE AND MOTION” is titled for Space; names Space several times.
Philosophers who discussed Space
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Zeno of Elea
- Immanuel Kant
- Hans Reichenbach
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Thomas Reid
- Paul Tillich
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Rudolf Carnap
- Theophrastus
- Émile Meyerson
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Force
- Feminism
- Principle of sufficient reason
- George Berkeley
- General relativity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy
- David Harvey
- Imaginary number
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Private property
- Classical physics
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Nader El-Bizri
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Gravitational field
- Mind–body dualism
- Postcolonialism
- Harvard University
- Function (mathematics)
- Cosmology
- Metaphysics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Existence.