Contextualizebeta

action at a distance

noun

Definitions

  1. The concept that an object can be affected, changed, moved, or otherwise affected without…

    The concept that an object can be affected, changed, moved, or otherwise affected without being physically touched by another object.

    • For Descartes, as for Aristoteles, the doctrine of the Plenum rested on two self-evident truths: Nature abhors a vacuum, and there can be no action at a distance .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for action at a distance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA