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    A body can enter a void because a void possesses only dimension, not matter.

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    • 1.Impermeability arises only when both matter and dimension are present.
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    • 2.A void has dimension but lacks matter.
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    • 3.Therefore, no conflict of co-existence arises between a body and a void.
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    • 1.Dimension itself, as an extended magnitude, constitutes a kind of incorporeal body that already occupies place and cannot be co-located with a corporeal body.
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    • 2.Aristotle's argument in Physics IV holds that two extended things sharing the same dimensions yields the absurdity of any number of bodies fitting in one place.
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    • 3.If void dimension is extensionally real, it is subject to the same exclusion principle that governs material extension, regardless of its lack of matter.
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    • 1.The distinction between matter and dimension does not fully account for impenetrability, since Aquinas and the Scholastic tradition locate resistance in quantified extension itself, not in matter alone.
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    • 2.If dimension alone suffices for spatial exclusion, then void dimension would block body entry just as material dimension does, undermining Crescas's own ontological distinction.
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    Crescas refutes these proofs with his new definition of the different levels of material existence. In his opinion, only the common existence of matter and dimension cause the impermeability of the body. A body (matter and dimension) can go inside a void (only dimension), but not inside another body. In this argument we see Crescas utilize the work of the Jewish apostate Abner. Abner explained the birth of Jesus (and transubstantiation) by the argument that Jesus is body without dimension and c
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