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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter

6470	Matter is the limit of appearances as distance from the object diminishes [Russell]
	Full Idea: We offer the following tentative definition: The matter of a given thing is the limit of its appearances as their distance from the thing diminishes.
	From: Bertrand Russell (The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914], §IX)
	A reaction: This strikes me as empiricism gone mad. Russell is famous for being a 'realist', but you would hardly know it at this point. Personally I put emphasis on 'best explanation', which fairly simply delivers most of our commonsense understandings of reality.