Sentences with phrase «certain spatiality»

Its greatest development was in the study of space, and, for the Greeks, a certain spatiality always clung to the idea of number and quantity.

Not exact matches

We may go further: the other half of knowledge is no longer so radically relative, as certain philosophers say, if we can establish that it bears upon a reality of inverse order, a reality which we always express in mathematical laws, that is to say in relations that imply comparisons, but which lends itself to this work only because it is weighted with spatiality and consequently with geometry.
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