Quote: regard as real those sense perceptions which are common to different individuals and hence impersonal; e.g., rigid bodies

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We are accustomed to regard as real those sense perceptions which are common to different individuals, and which therefore are, in a measure, impersonal. ... The conception of physical bodies, in particular of rigid bodies, is a relatively constant complex of such sense perceptions. A clock is also a body, or a system, in the same sense, with the additional property that the series of events which it counts is formed of elements all of which can be regarded as equal.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: a clock is a body or system that counts a series of events which can be regarded as equal

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