What does the word "those" refer to?
If we see on a road one house nearer to us than another, our other senses will bear out the view that it is nearer; for example, it will be reached sooner if we walk along the road. Other people will agree that the house which looks nearer to us is nearer; the ordnance map will take the same view; and thus everything points to a spatial relation between the houses corresponding to the relation between the sense-data which we see when we look at the houses. Thus we may assume that there is a physical space in which physical objects have spatial relations corresponding to those which the corresponding sense-data have in our private spaces. It is this physical space which is dealt with in geometry and assumed in physics and astronomy.
What does the word "those" refer to? "spatial relations" or just "relations"
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Good question. Grammatically, "those" seems to mean "spatial relations" when you first read the sentence, but it actually means "the relations", just as in the sentence before. Pronouns can be dangerous.
- Good question.
- Grammatically, "those" seems to mean "spatial relations" when you first read the sentence, but it actually means "the relations", just as in the sentence before.
- Pronouns can be dangerous.
- When in doubt, write it out.
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Good question. Grammatically, "those" seems to mean "spatial relations" when you first read the sentence, but it actually means "the relations", just as in the sentence before. Pronouns can be dangerous. When in doubt, write it out.
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