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The Ontological Disproof of the Vacuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

C. J. F. Williams
Affiliation:
University Of Bristol

Abstract

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1984

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References

1 See W. K. C., Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1965), 104.Google Scholar

2 See P. T., Geach, Reference and Generality, 3rd edn (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1980), 88.Google Scholar

3 What is Existence? (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1981), 302-307.Google Scholar

4 See What is Existence?, 310-318.Google Scholar

5 I used a version of this argument in commenting on Aristotle's account of Leucippus in Aristotle's ‘De Generatione et Corruptione’ (Clarendon Aristotle Series) (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1982), 125-127, but it seemed to me that the point needed to be made more clearly and in its own right.Google Scholar