ABSTRACT

Relation needs to be physically manifested amongst worldly things, and this will mean that so far from space and time relations being neutral, somehow immaterial, they must be physical connections or expressions of physical connections, being relations in a physical world. The concept of a world requires relativity of its objects; togetherness is entailed by the concept of a world. The common identity of one thing in both worlds would be a point of contact, hence relativity between the two worlds. The world consists of temporally distributed events; its building-blocks are in part temporal, so the world is so too. To be part of such a universe requires necessary temporal connection. A purely logical, conceptual proposition can derive its necessity from itself, but one about the world can only derive its contingency or its necessity from the world.