1. Young man at his window: places everywhere This is just common sense: look out the window of your home or office. What do you see? You only see places. A bench, a tree, a park where people converse and children play, a square, a street, a building, a mural on a building’s facade, a bridge, the sun, the sky,…
To be (at all) is to be in (some) place Archytian Axiom American philosopher Edward S. Casey reports the Archytian axiom in his book The Fate of Place as follows: ‘… to be (at all) is to be in (some) place.’ [1] The original statement by Archytas, as referenced by Simplicius, and reported by Israeli physicist and professor Shmuel Sambursky…