This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...that the theory that a movable object must be divisible, is not dependent on the notion of change. It can be inferred from the Physics, VI, ch. 1, where it is argued that motion implies a front and a back side of the moving body, and anything that has two extremities is extended and divisible. This, indeed, is the way ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...that the theory that a movable object must be divisible, is not dependent on the notion of change. It can be inferred from the Physics, VI, ch. 1, where it is argued that motion implies a front and a back side of the moving body, and anything that has two extremities is extended and divisible. This, indeed, is the way that Aaron of Nicomedia formulates it: yjftJDD?3W pinn iop' rraiai iinto nonp ii vr. See E? ifaim, P. 7. as beyond the category of space, but having position.68 But how can a thing exist in the physical universe, not in a space garb? And how does a mathematical point monopolize a definite space when it is itself in no need of it? 'Such things', Maimonides therefore concludes, 'are only said; they exist only in words, not in thought, much less in reality.'69 Another objection to the Mutakallimun's standpoint is how could we bisect a line composed of an odd number of atoms.70 One might say that, since the atom has no magnitude, it is really of no consequence for an exact spatial division; but strangely enough, according to the Arabian thinkers, it has a magnitudinal value in conjunction; hence that side which will own this middle atom will be more extended than the other. Consequently an exact division in this case is impossible. This last argument was also advanced by Maimonides' imitator, Aaron of Nicomedia, the Karaite, in his work called The Tree of Li/e.n Finally, the problem of infinite divisibility received a new treatment in the work entitled The Wars of God, by the acute thinker Levi b. Gerson, or Gersonides. He reiterates the idea that a thousand mathematical points could not produce anything more than a point.72 He points out that matter has a property called continuity (hitdabbekut), by virtue of which it may be dMded and subdivided ...
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