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Space and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a de… - Hermann Weyl
" "Space and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a definite part of space at a definite moment of time. It is in the composite idea of motion that these three fundamental conceptions enter into intimate relationship.
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Hermann Weyl (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher.
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Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl
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All characteristics of material things as they are presented to us in the acts of external perception (e.g. colour) are endowed with the separateness of spatial extension, but it is only when we build up a single connected real world out of all our experiences that the spatial extension, which is a constituent of every perception, becomes a part of one and the same all-inclusive space. … every material thing can, without changing content, equally well occupy a position in Space different from its present one. This immediately gives us the property of the homogeneity of space which is the root of the conception, Congruence.
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