On the one hand, there is the tendency which tries to reduce the complexity of phenomena to the existence of simple elements indivisible, and capable of being counted; a tendency whose analysis of Reality seeks to reduce it to a dust-cloud of individuals. On the other hand, there is the tendency, based on our intuitive notion of Time and Space, which observes the universal interaction of things and regards every attempt to disengage definite individual entities from the flux of natural phenomena as artificial …
