"It is the event that is the immediate entity of perception; Nature is the sum-total of events, and every instrument of thought that our minds employ can be traced back to its ultimate origin in events."
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Herbert Dingle
Herbert Dingle (2 August 1890 β 4 September 1978) was an English astronomer and philosopher.
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