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    It is not the case that If God removed all matter within a vessel such that nothing remained, the sides of the vessel would immediately become contiguous.

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.God's omnipotence entails the ability to create and sustain any logically coherent state, including a bounded region devoid of matter.
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    • 2.A vacuum bounded by vessel walls is not self-contradictory, as More and Gassendi argued against Cartesian plenism.
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    • 3.Therefore the sides need not collapse together, since God could sustain the empty interval as a real, extended nothing.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Absolute space exists as a real, immovable container independent of material bodies, as Newton argued in the Scholium to the Principia.
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    • 2.If space persists after matter's removal, an extended void separates the vessel's sides, and they need not become contiguous.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Space cannot exist separately from body.
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    • 2.Without matter, there is no extended substance to constitute the space between the vessel's sides.
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    • 3.Nothingness cannot possess any extension.
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