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IN Chapter III. of Mr. Herbert Spencer's “First Principles” (p. 47, under heading, “Ultimate Scientific Ideas”), are treated the subjects of space and time. Here contradictions and difficulties of an apparently insuperable character are encountered in the attempt to define the nature of space and time, and the existence of these difficulties is frankly acknowledged. But with all the respect that is here due, it appears difficult to admit that these apparent contradictions are necessary, and in regard to space, in the first place, it will be my object here to suggest a remedy.
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PRESTON, S. On some Apparent Contradictions at the Foundations of Knowledge. Nature 37, 221–222 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037221f0
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