position//abstraction

position//abstraction nicholas sagan

Š redshift press 2010

Spatial m easureme n

quantitat

ts are use d to quan tify

ively com pare

how far a p a r t

the inter val betwe en

objects a re, a n d t e m p o r a l m e asureme and dura tion

nts are u sed to

of events

arg

ues

fo r

t h e nec ess ity of t he exi ste nce of a bso lute

spa

ce

to a cco unt fo r phe can nom not ena be l i ke acc oun rot atio ted na fo r

nd acc ele

rat on ion ap tha u re ly t

re l a

tion

alis

t

acc

oun

t

led to the conclusion

tha

t th e

ma

ss o f an

obj

ect

wa

rps

the

geo

me

try

of

the

spa

ce-

tim

es urr oun din g

it

t in st an t m po se it s pr es en co at th ts en ev t se t of n ha ve a di ffer en ca se er iv un e th ea ch po in t in

ideas of form and functional capacity only dictates

temporal

direction in relation

to complex scenarios involving specific,

non-metaphysical agency which is not

merely dependent on human perception of time

asymmetry is perceivable

and ii) that the pieces of cup came to possess exactly the nature and

number of those of a cup before

assembling

i) the relationship between the agent capacities of the human hand (ie, what it is and is not

capable of & what it is for)

and non-animal agency

(ie, what floors are and are not capable of and what they are for)

on account of two features:

on the other han

d

holds that for a

thing to exist thro

ugh time is for it

to exist as a

a s re u o tinu con

lity

when we consider the thing as a whole we must

consider an aggregate

of all its

"temporal parts" or instances of existing

objects within these realities somehow exist outside of the reality as a whole, even though the realities as

wholes are not

related

position//abstraction nicholas sagan www.nicholassagan.com nicholassagan@gmail.com

Š redshift press 2010