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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Thursday Nov 25, 2010
Thursday Nov 25, 2010
Ancient atomism as a response to Parmenides
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Even the most void-like space still contains..space- which makes it no longer the void sought. Every aspect of the observable universe is made up of universal stuff, as small as you like to consider. Ergo without a salience of void, we are back at Parmenides’ needing reconciliation (or acceptance).
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I have to speak out at this point over the unending amount of ink spilled as you’ve once put it on this void concept which seems to hold ancient atomism and worryingly enough perhaps modern conceptions of physics as well. We cannot speak of void was not incorrect. There is no void, certainly not one in our bodies or “out there” in any sense. Firstly, if you can point to void, you’ve already defeated yourself. Void has no qualities, to use Arostotelian language.