Practice question · Multiple choice
Why would the atomists make the apparently self-defeating claim that what-is-not exists?
Hints
- The claim is aimed precisely at the premise that blocked motion.
- Granting the void as real restores motion, plurality and change at once.
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A. That the void is a real feature of the world, so motion has somewhere to occur
Why
The void is emptiness that genuinely obtains, a real feature rather than a substance. Granting it directly contradicts the premise that had made motion impossible, and everything else in the theory follows.
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