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The physical sciences are quite often termed “sciences of matter,” which implies that matter is their basic concept. And one of the facts that it seems to me scientists try to persuade us of is that indeed everything narrows down to the notion of matter; that, in the Absolute, only matter exists, with innumerable properties.
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d’Espagnat, B. (1983). Unkind Artless Interlude. In: In Search of Reality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87050-7_5
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