“ No place in the private world of one observer is identical with a place in the private world of another observer. ”
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1910). copy citation
Author | Bertrand Russell |
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Source | Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays |
Topic | world |
Date | 1910 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25447/25447-h/25447-h.htm |
Context
“These belong to different spaces, although, as we shall see, it is possible, with certain limitations, to establish a correlation between them. [154] What we call the different appearances of the same thing to different observers are each in a space private to the observer concerned. No place in the private world of one observer is identical with a place in the private world of another observer. There is therefore no question of combining the different appearances in the one place; and the fact that they cannot all exist in one place affords accordingly no ground whatever for questioning their physical reality.”
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