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    It is not the case that Leibniz's relational theory of space holds that spatial relations are grounded in relations among substances, not in relations between substances and void spatial parts.

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    • 1.Relational space struggles to explain continuous motion and acceleration without appealing to absolute reference frames.
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    • 2.If spatial relations require substances to relate, an infinite void of no substances still seems spatially extended—making relations-only accounts incomplete.
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    • 3.Modern physics (spacetime geometry) treats space as a fundamental structure independent of matter, undermining substance-only relationalism.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Void space is unobservable and causally inert, so positing it violates parsimony without explanatory gain.
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    • 2.Spatial relations between substances (distance, configuration) are logically sufficient to ground all spatial facts we can verify.
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    • 3.Absolute space commits us to mysterious entities with no intrinsic properties, whereas relations among substances are concrete.
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