matière discutée avec Philippe DUJARDIN (Lyon)We propose here very general definitions of space and time. They are not substances of nature to discover, but relations to express, opposing the stable to the unstable. All disciplines are entitled to do so, from anthropology to physics. We show the similarity of approaches: - when the anthropologist defines social groups having some permanence, by considering human behaviours seen as similar, as opposed to other behaviours whose variability has no meaning to him; and - when the physicist defines space, relying on systems of material points whose relative motions are negligible (solids), as opposed to mobile points that serve him to define time (for example, the sun in its apparent movement aro...