  As Weyl (1953, 529) observes, when Newton explained the experienced  world through the movements of solid particles in space, he rejected  sense qualities for the construction of the objective world, but he  held on to, and used an intuitively given objective space for the  construction of a real world that lies behind the appearances. It was Leibniz who recognized the phenomenal character (Phenomenalität) of space and time as consisting in the mere ordering of phenomena;  however, space and time themselves do not have an independent  reality. 