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Filling the Gaps - a Brief History of Nothing

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Opposition of Aristotle and the Stoics

Aristotle says that if you have a sharp enough knife, you can cut any body no matter how small in half. He thinks that bodies are continuous, not atomic, and he denies the existence of void. Most philosophers fall into one or the other of these categories. The Stoics reject Epicureans' atomism and say that there is void just not here.

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