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    There is such a thing as empty space (void). — Carmelics
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    There is such a thing as empty space (void).

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    • 1.All moving things hereabouts move through empty space.
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    • 2.By inductive generalization from observed cases, all moving things everywhere move through empty space.
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    • 3.There are moving things.
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    • 1.Motion requires only that a body can successively occupy positions previously occupied by another body, not that any position ever be unoccupied.
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    • 2.Aristotle's plenum model, in which denser matter displaces less dense matter in continuous cyclic fashion, accounts for all observed motion without positing void.
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    • 1.Inductive generalization from local, terrestrial cases cannot establish conclusions about the fundamental structure of space, since our observational access is radically limited.
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    • 2.The inference from 'moving things appear to move through empty space' conflates phenomenological appearance with ontological claim, as a plenum of aether or subtle matter would be empirically indistinguishable from void to ordinary observation.
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    A void is defined as dimensional space without matter inside88%We can represent space as empty of objects81%A void has dimension but lacks matter.81%The syllable A signifies emptiness (śūnyatā)80%

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    But the author of §4, at any rate, insists that it is only because we have observed that moving things hereabouts, despite other differences, all share the property of moving through empty spaces, that we affirm that the same thing holds without exception in non-evident places too (xxxv 36–xxxvi 7). The full form of this sign-inference would therefore run: “Since moving things hereabouts all move through empty space, all moving things move through empty spaces; and since all moving things move t
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