Single Idea 2100

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time]

Full Idea

I have more than once stated that I held space to be something purely relative, like time.

Gist of Idea

Space and time are purely relative

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Samuel Clarke [1716], 3.4)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.210