Sunday, July 2, 2017

Writing, Spacing, Space

In the act of writing, that, as has been previously discussed, is the true "immediately given" to Bergson, he might notice that cramped writing can be illegible, in which case he would endeavor to spread out the letters a little more.  He could thus observe that Space can be created by a process of Spacing, which neither is immobile nor, since it better differentiates the letters, an homogenization of them.  He might therefore conclude that if Physicists falsify Duration when representing it as a Spatial figure, e. g. a line, it is because they first falsify Spacing in it, i. e. by hypostasizing and homogenize it as Space.  He might then also better appreciate Kant's nuance that what represents Time is the "drawing" of a line, not a "drawn" line.

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