ABSTRACT
We take the stations option in our wireless metaphysics; we shall get not monads but atoms. In the wireless world we are imagining we can regard either stations or programmes as particulars. Stations are innately characterless; they can, and occasionally do, switch programmes, and they could conceivably all broadcast the same programme. Strawsonian purists and hi-fi enthusiasts, however, can consider, instead of the wireless model offered, one constructed on the basis of several variable speed tape-recorders, where the key note of each piece replayed performs the role of P. F. Strawson's master-sound. Many difficulties arise from the barely compatible requirements we expect our concept of space to satisfy, and the contrast between what we can conceive of and what we can actually know. Sometimes we are impelled to think of space rather positively, as Aristotle did, and Newton in his metaphysical moments, and as in the General Theory of Relativity today.
