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From Aristotle to Descartes, space has been more often described as a relation and not as an entity. This means that space does not exist if there are no objects. Space is the relation between dynamical objects, like a marriage is a relation between two individuals: there is no marriage without the two individuals. More precisely, space is the relation of adjacency, namely of being in touch, between objects. Newton introduced space as an entity “within
What is time? What is space? (I Dialoghi)
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