Meaning of action at a distance | Babel Free

Definitions

The concept that an object can be affected, changed, moved, or otherwise affected without being physically touched by another object.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“For Descartes, as for Aristoteles, the doctrine of the Plenum rested on two self-evident truths: Nature abhors a vacuum, and there can be no action at a distance .”

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