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Single Idea 6468

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space]

Full Idea

In addition to the private spaces, ..there is the 'space of perspectives', since each private world may be regarded as the appearance which the universe presents from a certain point of view.

Gist of Idea

There is 'private space', and there is also the 'space of perspectives'

Source

Bertrand Russell (The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914], §VII)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'Mysticism and Logic' [Unwin 1989], p.153


A Reaction

This replaces his concept of 'public space', which he introduced in 1912. Russell gradually dropped this, but I like the idea that we somehow directly perceive space in two ways simultaneously (which led him to say that space is six-dimensional).