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    A body cannot occupy the same space as another body because both possess matter and dimension, which together cause impermeability.

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    • 1.Impermeability of a body is caused by the common existence of matter and dimension.
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    • 2.A body is constituted by both matter and dimension.
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    • 3.Two entities sharing the same combination of matter and dimension cannot co-occupy space.
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    • 1.Descartes and Leibniz distinguished extension as a purely geometric property from the physical force (vis) that actually resists penetration.
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    • 2.If resistance to co-location derives from force or active power rather than passive dimension, then dimensionality is not itself the causal ground of impermeability.
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    • 3.Two bodies sharing identical matter and dimension could therefore be distinguished by differing active forces, leaving co-occupation conceptually possible absent that force.
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    • 1.Scotus and the haecceity tradition hold that matter alone, not dimension, individuates bodies, making dimension causally redundant to impermeability.
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    • 2.If dimension is redundant, the conjunction 'matter AND dimension causes impermeability' fails, and matter alone may permit co-location under different haecceities.
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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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