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I wonder how Aristotle came to that conclusion though. Were there 'vacuums' in his day? How would he test one? If he put anything in it - it would cease to be a vacuum.
I wonder how Aristotle came to that conclusion though. Were there 'vacuums' in his day? How would he test one? If he put anything in it - it would cease to be a vacuum.
Proposition - If a tree fell in a forest and the only person present was Helen Keller nothing would have taken place.
(Apologies to Charles Riborg Man)
Now that depends on your view AT!
Something did take place because the tree fell, but if you believe that a living creature had to see/hear it, for it to have happened, wouldn't that mean the statement was a lie by the person who declared a tree had fallen!
Something must be wrong with me and my brain ---
if I'm so patently unrewarding.
But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that
way --- and my zero to your power of ten equals
nothing at all.
Something did take place because the tree fell, but if you believe that a living creature had to see/hear it, for it to have happened, wouldn't that mean the statement was a lie by the person who declared a tree had fallen!