7. Place.
Another idea coming under this head, and belonging to this tribe, is that we call place. As in simple
space, we consider the relation of distance between any two bodies or points; so in our idea of place, we consider
the relation of distance betwixt anything, and any two or more points, which are considered as keeping the same
distance one with another, and so considered as at rest. For when we find anything at the same distance now
which it was yesterday, from any two or more points, which have not since changed their distance one with
another, and with which we then compared it, we say it hath kept the same place: but if it hath sensibly altered its
distance with either of those points, we say it hath changed its place: though, vulgarly speaking, in the common
notion of place, we do not always exactly observe the distance from these precise points, but from larger portions
of sensible objects, to which we consider the thing placed to bear relation, and its distance from which we have
some reason to observe.
