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    It is not the case that There is such a thing as empty space (void).

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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