Time and space, the 'protagonists' of the fable of the Ondt and the
Gracehoper play an important role in this illusion. In Schopenhauer's words:
"We have called time and space the principium individuationis, because
only through them and in them is multiplicity of the homogeneous possible."
(WWI vol. I, book IV § 61, 427). Cf. also Schopenhauer's thesis
"that not time only but also space, and the whole content of both of them,
i.e., all that proceeds from causes and motives, has a merely relative
existence." (WWI vol. 1, 8; cf. Schopenhauer 1987, Book I, 40-41:
"daß wir die Zeit, so auch der Raum, und wie dieser, so auch Alles,
was in ihm und der Zeit zugleich ist, Alles also, was aus Ursachen oder
Motiven hervorgeht, nur ein relatives Daseyn hat.")
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