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C'est comme pour l'agenda/PDA (personal digital assistant): je ne me suis pas encore résolu à passer au Palm, car mon vieux time-system est encore beaucoup plus pratique et rapide.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Also location in the timeless space of some time-system is a relation derivative from location in instantaneous spaces of the same time-system.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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In this way each time-system possesses its own permanent timeless space peculiar to it alone, and each such space is composed of timeless points which belong to that time-system and to no other.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Also the parallelism of planes and straight lines arises from the parallelism of the moments of one and the same time-system intersecting
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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According to the theory of these lectures the axes to which motion is to be referred are axes at rest in the space of some time-system.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Secondly there is the determination of the timeless space which corresponds to any particular time-system with its infinite set of instantaneous spaces in its successive moments.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Also all the points of any one time-system form a family of parallel point-tracks.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Such a set of event-particles will form a point in the timeless space of that time-system.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Let the time-system be named α, and let the moment of time-system α to which our quick perception of nature approximates be called M.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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Thus a point is really an absolute position in the timeless space of a given time-system.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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