JSTOR ( October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'The Void' philosophy – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. There were questions as to whether void was truly nothing or if it was in fact filled with other things, with theories of aether being suggested in the 18th century to fill the void.

, and Posidonius in his Physical Discourse, book ii.' Chrysippus discusses the void in his work On Void and in the first book of his Physical Sciences so too Apollophanes in his Physics

This is a necessary result of the sympathy and tension which binds together things in heaven and earth. The world has no empty space within it, but forms one united whole. By incorporeal is meant that which, though capable of being occupied by body, is not so occupied.

Stoic philosophers admitted the subsistence of four incorporeals among which they included void: 'Outside of the world is diffused the infinite void, which is incorporeal. Īristotle, in Book IV of Physics, denied the existence of the Void ( Greek: κενόν) with his rejection of finite entities. In response to Parmenides, Democritus described the universe as only being composed of atoms and void. Western philosophers have discussed the existence and nature of void since Parmenides suggested it did not exist and used this to argue for the non-existence of change, motion, differentiation, among other things.

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