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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle
Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Physics: Book 4
Book IV Place, Empty Space, And Time
Introduction:
Book IV discusses the difficult concepts of place, empty space, and
time. It will be remembered that earlier Aristotle listed the characteristics
of natural things as motion, space, empty space, and time. Now he returns to
a discussion of these characteristics. In the first half of Book IV, Aristotle
determines the meaning of place and empty space. The definitions enable him in
the following books to explore the relation of these phenomena to motion. In
the concluding chapters of Book IV (10 ...
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