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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Idk if you can measure what area a hole takes up it has dimensions doesn't it?

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

But can you measure something that doesn't exist? Can the absence of something be something in and of itself? Is it the hole you are measuring, or the object around the hole?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

No but a void exists as defined by the matter around it

Yes we just did this

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Philosophy is easy

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