Space and Time
Space and time are an
immaterial coordinate system that allows us to keep track of
material events, the positions and velocities of the fundamental particles that make up every body in the universe.
When
Immanuel Kant described space and time as
a priori forms of perception, he was right that scientists and philosophers impose the four-dimensional coordinate system on the material world. He was wrong that the coordinate geometry must therefore be a flat Euclidean space. That is an empirical and
contingent fact.
References
Wiggins, D. (1968).
On being in the same place at the same time.
The Philosophical Review, 90-95.
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