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Full Idea
Extension is the order of coexisting possibles.
Gist of Idea
Space is the order of coexisting possibles
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Burcher De Volder [1706], 1703.06.20)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Essays', ed/tr. Arlew,R /Garber,D [Hackett 1989], p.178
A Reaction
[In his next letter he uses the word 'space' instead of 'extension'] This is a rather startling different and modal definition of space. Cf Idea 13181.
Related Idea
Idea 13181 Time is the order of inconsistent possibilities [Leibniz]
| 13180 | Space is the order of coexisting possibles [Leibniz] |
| 17736 | We can't learn of space through experience; experience of space needs its representation [Kant] |
| 5531 | Space is an a priori necessary basic intuition, as we cannot imagine its absence [Kant] |
| 16922 | Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles [Kant] |
| 24096 | Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche] |
| 6468 | There is 'private space', and there is also the 'space of perspectives' [Russell] |
| 7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |
| 15321 | Space can't be an individual (in space), but it is present in all places [Harré/Madden] |
| 21112 | Empty space contains a continual flux of brief virtual particles [Krauss] |
| 9922 | If space is really just a force-field, then it is a physical entity [Burgess/Rosen] |
| 10683 | We could ignore space, and just talk of the shape of matter [Hossack] |
| 19947 | Hilbert Space is an abstraction representing all possible states of a quantum system [New Sci.] |