I argue we cannot understand the meaning of the concepts of place and space, and their impact on our understanding of the nature of reality, without considering the meaning of other basic concepts that are co-implicated with and necessary for understanding the very concepts of place and space. That was particularly evident ever since I introduced Julian Barbour’s scientific history…
With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional presuppositions and personal assumptions I have presented so far concerning the meanings of the concepts of space and place. The basic consideration on which I have founded my research on the concepts of space and place concerns the belief that concepts have not fixed meanings: they may…
1. The Fabric of Reality and its Continuum In this article, I will use the terms continuum, physical continuum, dimensional continuum or even extensive continuum, to refer to the reciprocal order of things and bodies ingrained in the material substrate in which things and bodies exist and move.[1] This continuum is the invisible substrate we should think about when we…
With the present work, I shall commence a series of two articles which deal with the scientific perspective on questions of space and place, through the presentation of the following historically-based texts, written by three physicists: the first is ‘The Discovery of Dynamics: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories’…