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    Challenges→Descartes distinguishes internal place (the extension constituting a body) from external place (its relation to surrounding bodies), treating the latter as purely relational and not as a fundamental ontological category (Pr II 13-15).

    Descartes' own physics uses gravitational and collision laws that presuppose external spatial relations as causally fundamental, contradicting his ontology.

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