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    A distance of zero would seem to be a distance, not an ab... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Leftow's defense that a distance of zero is just an absence of distance fails.

    A distance of zero would seem to be a distance, not an absence of distance.

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    Unfortunately, the Zero Thesis and Leftow’s case for it are problematic. From the fact that there is no spatial distance between spatial things and God, it does not follow that the spatial distance between spatial things and God is zero. A similar inference leads one to claim that all spatial things are spatially contiguous with yellow and the number 3. Leftow is of course aware of this consequence, and accepts it as a surprising finding about yellow and the number 3; he argues that the Zero Thesis only seems problematic because one fails to notice that a distance of zero is just an absence of...

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