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(1991) The new aspects of time, Dordrecht, Springer.
I call two event-particles which on some or other system of measurement are in the same instantaneous space ‘co-present’ event-particles. Then it is possible that A and B may be co-present, and that A and C may be co-present, but that B and C may not be co-present. For example, at some inconceivable distance from us there are events co-present with us now and also co-present with the birth of Queen Victoria. If A and B are co-present there will be some systems in which A precedes B and some in which B precedes A. Also there can be no velocity quick enough to carry a material particle from A to B or from B to A.1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2123-8_14
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Čapek, M. (1991). Note about Whitehead's definitions of co-presence, in The new aspects of time, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 278-285.
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