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 1   I, 5|     point), or (b) it will be a "void", i.e. a non-perceptible
 2   I, 5| magnitude. For, if it were, the "void" would exist in separation;
 3   I, 5|      there will exist separate a void: but (as we have stated
 4   I, 5|         the growing body is not "void" and that yet there are
 5   I, 8|          one" and immovable. The void, they argue, "is not": but
 6   I, 8|            but unless there is a void with a separate being of
 7   I, 8|      many" (and not "one") and a void. For (suppose that the universe
 8   I, 8|         either, but the Whole is void; while to maintain that
 9   I, 8|     would be a limit against the void.~There were, then, certain
10   I, 8|     could be no motion without a void. The result is a theory
11   I, 8|          states as follows: "The void is a "not being", and no
12   I, 8|           The "many" move in the void (for there is a void): and
13   I, 8|         the void (for there is a void): and by coming together
14   I, 8|         effected by means of the void, and so too is growth-solids
15   I, 8|          creeping in to fill the void places." Empedocles too
16   I, 8|     pores) but all of it will be void. It is necessary, therefore,
17   I, 8|         he calls "pores"-must be void. But this is precisely Leucippus"
18   I, 8|         to Leucippus through the void and through contact (for
19   I, 8|       since he denies there is a void.~Now we have discussed "
20   I, 8|       action" except through the void) and of producing one-no "
21   I, 8|          inasmuch as there is no void in them.~III. It is a further
22   I, 8|        must contain bodies, are "void", the same consequence will
23   I, 8|      suppose there is a "minute" void and yet to deny the existence
24   I, 8|          be), or to imagine "the void" means anything else than
25   I, 8|          there will correspond a void of equal cubic capacity.~