Space and TimeSpace and time are an immaterial coordinate system that allows us to keep track of material events, the positions and velocities of the fundamental particles that make up every body in the universe. When Immanuel Kant described space and time as a priori forms of perception, he was right that scientists and philosophers impose the four-dimensional coordinate system on the material world. He was wrong that the coordinate geometry must therefore be a flat Euclidean space. That is an empirical and contingent fact.
ReferencesWiggins, D. (1968). On being in the same place at the same time. The Philosophical Review, 90-95.
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