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1 I, 5 | also, with his plenum and void, both of which exist, be
2 III, 1 | Besides these, place, void, and time are thought to
3 III, 4 | body in one part of the void rather than in another?
4 III, 4 | be everywhere. Also, if void and place are infinite,
5 IV, 1 | Again, the theory that the void exists involves the existence
6 IV, 1 | place: for one would define void as place bereft of body.~
7 IV, 6 | similar questions about the void, also, must be held to belong
8 IV, 6 | those who hold that the void exists regard it as a sort
9 IV, 6 | capable of containing, "void" when it is deprived of
10 IV, 6 | deprived of that-as if "void" and "full" and "place"
11 IV, 6 | who try to show that the void does not exist do not disprove
12 IV, 6 | refute the existence of the void in this way. They merely
13 IV, 6 | nothing in it at all is void (so what is full of air
14 IV, 6 | so what is full of air is void). It is not then the existence
15 IV, 6 | rather those who say that the void exists.~(1) They argue,
16 IV, 6 | exist, if there were no void, since what is full cannot
17 IV, 6 | there must, he says, be void, but void is not among the
18 IV, 6 | must, he says, be void, but void is not among the things
19 IV, 6 | they show that there is a void.~(2) They reason from the
20 IV, 6 | take always by means of void, for nutriment is body,
21 IV, 6 | Pythagoreans, too, (4) held that void exists and that it enters
22 IV, 6 | infinite air. Further it is the void which distinguishes the
23 IV, 6 | in the numbers, for the void distinguishes their nature.~
24 IV, 6 | against the existence of the void.~
25 IV, 7 | meaning of the name.~The void is thought to be place with
26 IV, 7 | every body is in place, void is place in which there
27 IV, 7 | is no body, there must be void.~Every body, again, they
28 IV, 7 | heavy or light in it, is void.~This result, then, as I
29 IV, 7 | suppose that the point is void; for the void must be place
30 IV, 7 | the point is void; for the void must be place which has
31 IV, 7 | then that in one way the void is described as what is
32 IV, 7 | has colour or sound-is it void or not? Clearly they would
33 IV, 7 | what is tangible it was void, and if not, not.~In another
34 IV, 7 | not, not.~In another way void is that in which there is
35 IV, 7 | substance. So some say that the void is the matter of the body (
36 IV, 7 | are inquiring about the void as about something separable.~
37 IV, 7 | the nature of place, and void must, if it exists, be place
38 IV, 7 | plain that on this showing void does not exist, either unseparated
39 IV, 7 | unseparated or separated; the void is meant to be, not body
40 IV, 7 | in body. This is why the void is thought to be something,
41 IV, 7 | those who maintain that the void is something. They state
42 IV, 7 | something. They state that the void is the condition of movement
43 IV, 7 | necessity for there being a void if there is movement. It
44 IV, 7 | respect of place involves a void; for bodies may simultaneously
45 IV, 7 | be compressed not into a void but because they squeeze
46 IV, 7 | proving the existence of void), or the whole body must
47 IV, 7 | or the whole body must be void, if it is increased in every
48 IV, 7 | is increased by means of void. The same argument applies
49 IV, 7 | prove the existence of the void.~
50 IV, 8 | explain again that there is no void existing separately, as
51 IV, 8 | clear that it cannot be the void that is the condition of
52 IV, 8 | locomotion. What, then, will the void be the condition of? It
53 IV, 8 | condition of this.~Again, if void is a sort of place deprived
54 IV, 8 | of body, when there is a void where will a body placed
55 IV, 8 | move into the whole of the void. The same argument applies
56 IV, 8 | argument will apply to the void as to the "up" and "down"
57 IV, 8 | maintain the existence of the void make it a place.~And in
58 IV, 8 | either in place-or in the void? For the expected result
59 IV, 8 | not exist, neither will void.~If people say that the
60 IV, 8 | If people say that the void must exist, as being necessary
61 IV, 8 | can be moved if there is a void; for as with those who for
62 IV, 8 | at rest, so, too, in the void things must be at rest;
63 IV, 8 | than to another; since the void in so far as it is void
64 IV, 8 | void in so far as it is void admits no difference.~The
65 IV, 8 | difference throughout the void or the infinite? For in
66 IV, 8 | and in so far as it is a void, up differs no whit from
67 IV, 8 | nothing, there is none in the void (for the void seems to be
68 IV, 8 | none in the void (for the void seems to be a non-existent
69 IV, 8 | locomotion, or else there is no void.~Further, in point of fact
70 IV, 8 | its proper place. But in a void none of these things can
71 IV, 8 | thought to move into the void because it yields; but in
72 IV, 8 | because it yields; but in a void this quality is present
73 IV, 8 | is no ratio in which the void is exceeded by body, as
74 IV, 8 | of points! Similarly the void can bear no ratio to the
75 IV, 8 | time, it moves through the void with a speed beyond any
76 IV, 8 | any ratio. For let Z be void, equal in magnitude to B
77 IV, 8 | less than E, however, the void will bear this ratio to
78 IV, 8 | traverse of Z when Z was void occupied the time H. So
79 IV, 8 | time whether Z be full or void. But this is impossible.
80 IV, 8 | through any part of the void, this impossible result
81 IV, 8 | whether this be full or void, in an equal time; for there
82 IV, 8 | but there is no ratio of void to full.~These are the consequences
83 IV, 8 | will also move through the void with this ratio of speed.
84 IV, 8 | then, that, if there is a void, a result follows which
85 IV, 8 | which those who believe in a void set it up. They think that
86 IV, 8 | of place is to exist, the void cannot exist, separated
87 IV, 8 | inserted body. Now in the void this is impossible; for
88 IV, 8 | for it is not body; the void must have penetrated the
89 IV, 8 | that which this portion of void formerly occupied in the
90 IV, 8 | formerly occupied in the void, just as if the water or
91 IV, 8 | to that occupied by the void; a magnitude which, if it
92 IV, 8 | occupy an equal amount of void, and fill the same place,
93 IV, 8 | part of place or of the void equal to itself. How then
94 IV, 8 | the cube differ from the void or place that is equal to
95 IV, 8 | things what sort of thing void is. But in fact it is found
96 IV, 8 | that there is no separate void.~
97 IV, 9 | density shows that there is a void. If rarity and density do
98 IV, 9 | must have been made), or void must necessarily exist;
99 IV, 9 | separately, it is plain that if void cannot exist separate any
100 IV, 9 | they mean that there is void, not separately existent,
101 IV, 9 | impossible, yet, first, the void turns out not to be a condition
102 IV, 9 | fire is rare); second, the void turns out to be a condition
103 IV, 9 | takes place, but in that the void carries things up as skins
104 IV, 9 | continuous with them. Yet how can void have a local movement or
105 IV, 9 | For thus that into which void moves is till then void
106 IV, 9 | void moves is till then void of a void.~Again, how will
107 IV, 9 | moves is till then void of a void.~Again, how will they explain,
108 IV, 9 | that if the rarer and more void a thing is the quicker it
109 IV, 9 | upwards, if it were completely void it would move with a maximum
110 IV, 9 | which showed that in the void all things are incapable
111 IV, 9 | of moving shows that the void cannot move, viz. the fact
112 IV, 9 | incomparable.~Since we deny that a void exists, but for the rest
113 IV, 9 | might say that there is a void; our statement is based
114 IV, 9 | it is evident, then, that void does not exist either separate (
115 IV, 9 | the condition of movement void, whatever it may be. At
116 IV, 9 | matter of them, would be the void; for the dense and the rare
117 IV, 9 | for the discussion of the void, and of the sense in which
118 VIII, 9| this kind but say that "void" accounts for motion-they
119 VIII, 9| that is accounted for by "void" is locomotion, and its
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