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    It is not the case that A body can enter a void because a void possesses only dimension, not matter.

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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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    • 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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