SPACE

in Philosophy, is extension considered in its own nature, independently of anything it may contain. Aristotle defined it as the po ibility of motion, and therefore po e ing the quality of being, potentially, divisible ad infinitum. Space and Time are two of the so-called innate ideas. Locke maintained that we acquire the idea of * space ’ by the senses of sight and touch and Kant maintained that space SPECTACLES and time are the; ultimate forms of external and internal sense, and that these forms are innate in the human mind. Herbert Spencer said " It will be sufficient for present purposes to say: that we know ‘space’ as an ability to contain bodies”; and though that is not a definition, it may be admitted that the antithesis between bodies, and an ability to contain SPECTRUM bodies, represents the contrast between our conceptions of the sensible non-ego (matter) and the insensible non-ego (tpace