As regards points, instants, and particles, I was awakened from my‘dogmatic slumbers' by Whitehead. Whitehead invented a method of constructing points, instants, and particles as sets of events, each of finite extent. This made it possible to use Occam's razor in physics in the same sort of way in which we had used it in arithmetic.<
Source: My Philosophical Development, Chapter 9 The External World
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