The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

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In his classic work The Perception of the Visual World (1950) he rejected the then fashionable theory of behaviorism for a view based on his own experimental work which pioneered the idea that animals 'sampled' information from the 'ambient' outside world. They are all prosperous.