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    Challenges→Descartes' physics is difficult to reconcile with a strict relational theory of space and motion.

    Descartes' plenum entails that every body is always in contact with surrounding bodies, making the contiguous neighborhood relation physically exhaustive and thus sufficient for specifying all motions without remainder.

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    Descartes
    # Descartes René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician from the 1600s who fundamentally changed how people think about knowledge and the mind. He's famous for the idea "I think, therefore I am" (cogito ergo sum), which means that the very fact that you can think proves you exist—a foundation for modern philosophy. He also invented the coordinate system used in mathematics (the x and y axes on a graph), which connects geometry and algebra in practical ways we still use today.
    Exhaustive(describing the relationship between X1, X2, and X3)
    A set of options that covers all possibilities with no gaps—like saying a coin must be either heads or tails, with no other outcomes possible.
    Sufficient
    # Sufficient Something is sufficient when it is enough to achieve a goal or make something true. For example, having a valid driver's license is sufficient to legally drive a car—you don't need anything else. In everyday language, we use "sufficient" to mean "adequate" or "meeting the minimum requirement needed."
    Without remainder(describing complete explanation)

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    contiguous(atomist theories of aggregation)
    A mode of contact between atoms in which they touch without merging
    entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
    Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
    plenum(Relevant to the problem of distinguishing a resting body from surrounding matter)
    The continuous, fully filled material medium that constitutes Cartesian space; there is no void, and all regions are occupied by matter.

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