
Filling the Gaps - a Brief History of Nothing
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Galen's Argument on Demonstration
Razi says that Galen was claiming that you cannot know whether void is existent or not. That would be totally consistent with what else we know about this work on demonstration. And I think some support for that thought can be found elsewhere in the surviving works of Galen, because there's a great passage where he says philosophers waste a lot of their time arguing about issues that cannot be resolved.
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