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Sir Edmund Whittaker, in his Space and Spirit (p. 121),
explains in terms of the recent mathematics and physics, the
end of the Renaissance idea of continuous, uniform space that
came in with the notion of visual quantification:
At this point we escape from the order of the Newtonian
cosmos. . . . In the argument as usually presented the
language used is appropriate to the case when each
effect has only one cause, and each cause has only one
effect, so that all chains of causation are simple linear
sequences. If we now take into account the fact that an
effect may be produced by the joint action of several
distinct causes, and also that a cause may give rise to
more than one effect, the chains of causation may be
branched, and also may have junctions with one another;
but since the rule still holds, that the cause always