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The Location of Physical Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

Common sense holds that a physical object is confined to a definite region of space, and that it endures through a definite period of time. It scatters effects through other regions and periods, but it is the cause of those effects, and is just where it is and not everywhere. Physically its existence may entail other objects, but logically it entails nothing whatever beyond the limits of a certain volume.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1929

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page 64 note 1 This is the view expounded in a somewhat sporadic manner throughout Science and the Modern World.

page 68 note 1 Or, if we accept Mr. Bertrand Russell's theory of “physiologica inference,” what is erroneous is the physical act of behaving as thougl there were a cow, without any conscious inference whatever.