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Full Idea
Space, like matter, is a subjective form. Time is not. Space first emerged through the assumption of empty space. This doesn't exist. Force is everything.
Gist of Idea
Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 1[003])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.3
A Reaction
I would think modern physics endorses his opinion of space. The original atomists proposed a 'void', to prevent traffic jams of atoms. Now we see space as fields, so it is never empty.
| 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.] |