Simple location and fragmentation of reality

pp. 167-190

in: Milič Čapek, The new aspects of time, Berlin, Springer, 1991

Abstract

The term "fallacy of simple location" was coined by A. N. Whitehead in 1925 in his book Science and the Modern World; the two passages of the book that deal with this problem are worth being quoted in full and may serve as an introduction into our topic.