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15980 | 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. |