La perspective comme forme symbolique

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• Democritus, for example, constructed a purely corporeal world out of indivisible elements, and then, only in order to secure for those elements the possibility of movement, postulated further the infinite void as a mē on or nonbeing(even if, as a correlate to the on or being, this is something of a necessity). Plato let space stand in opposition to the world of elements reducible to geometrically formed bodies, as their formless huperdochē or receptacle(indeed it is even hostile to form). Aristotle, finally, with a basically quite unmathematical transfer of qualitative categories to the realm of the quantitative, attibuted six dimensions to topos koinos or general space(up and down, front and back, right and left), even though individual bodies were sufficiently defined by three dimensions... (查看原文)

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