
Filling the Gaps - a Brief History of Nothing
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The History of Philosophical Discussions About Valves
The Greek word for void is tau kenon, so the empty. It turns out to be a majority view among ancient and medieval philosophers that there's no such thing as void or that void doesn't exist. So this lecture is going to take us from before Plato and Aristotle, all the way up to the 10th century AD.
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