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.
To be published as a contribution to The Hartshorne Festschrift,Process and Divinity, eds. W. R. Reese and Eugene Freeman, scheduled for publication by Open Court in May, 1964.
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Čapek, M. (1991). Simple Location and Fragmentation of Reality. In: The New Aspects of Time. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 125. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2123-8_10
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