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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 5. Relational Space
We can locate the parts of the universe, but not the whole thing [Locke]
     Full Idea: We have no idea of the place of the universe, though we can of all the parts of it.
     From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.13.10)
     A reaction: Locke evidently agrees with the Leibniz view of space as relative, rather than with Newton's absolute view. …But see Idea 15981.