Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, a general term for the various modes (visual, auditory, tactual, etc.), of perception or apprehension of space.
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But modern time-consciousness owes much to the modern ‘space-consciousness’ in the sense that we are heirs of the idea (mentioned in Bruno, and then demonstrated by Galileo) that we live in an ‘infinite universe’, instead of a ‘closed world’ (or cosmos): a universe where motion (as Hobbes said after visiting Galileo) is the natural state of things rather than the state of rest to which the ancients thought all motion strove towards.
Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009
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But modern time-consciousness owes much to the modern ‘space-consciousness’ in the sense that we are heirs of the idea (mentioned in Bruno, and then demonstrated by Galileo) that we live in an ‘infinite universe’, instead of a ‘closed world’ (or cosmos): a universe where motion (as Hobbes said after visiting Galileo) is the natural state of things rather than the state of rest to which the ancients thought all motion strove towards.
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“out there” with space-consciousness, while it appears to be “in here” as an immanent object in the field of consciousness in time-consciousness.
Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy Nagatomo, Shigenori 2006
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“distance” and “opposition” occur in space-consciousness or in time-consciousness; an object appears to be
Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy Nagatomo, Shigenori 2006
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