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     It is naive to assume that we have an immediate,
direct intuition of space (or, for that matter, of time.)
Our understanding of space is conditioned by thought, by
mental activity, by language, by the words we use to
describe space; It is also modified by the instruments we
use to measure it. Most specifically, it is defined for us
mathematically by the algorithms that purport to state its
relationships to physical objects and to time.  We then
assimilate the symbolic (verbal and mathematical)
definition to such an extent, that it comes to dominate our
experience.

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Copyright 2007, Ernst Jochen Meyer
