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 | | There may be physical phenomena which physics (and any non-revolutionary extension of it) cannot describe, and of which it has no inkling, either descriptive or referential. |
 | | A concrete phenomenon must be more than its purely formal or structural properties, because these, considered just as such, have a purely abstract mathematical representation, and are, concretely, nothing—nothing at all. |
 | | As Russell says, ‘the physical [sc non-mental] world is only known as regards certain abstract features of its space-time structure—features which, because of their abstractness, do not suffice to show whether the physical world is, or is not, different in intrinsic character from the world of mind’. |
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