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| 12952 | Space is an order among actual and possible things [Leibniz] |
| Full Idea: Space is a relationship: an order, not only among existents, but also among possibles as though they existed. | |
| From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.13) | |
| A reaction: The modal end to this idea is a bit puzzling. Would there be any space if there were only possibles, and nothing yet existed, as in God's mind the instant before he got to work? |