"I... call attention to the long persistence of the metaphysical fallacy which kept up discussions on such subjects as the existence of space as anything more than a relation. The fallacy is, that whenever man can form clear ideas, not in themselves contradictory, these ideas must of necessity represent truths of nature. Hence when we conceive body, we conceive it as existing in something, which contains it (i.e., body as filling space) we are led to believe that this all-container must itself have an objective existence. The idea will not withstand criticism. An equal necessity can be shown for something to contain the container. As we cannot pursue this reduction ad infinitum, we must stop somewhere; why not, therefore, stop at Substance, of which we know something, rather than go on to Space, of which we know nothing?"
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Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science
Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science, including Analyses of Aristotle's Scientific Writings was written by George Henry Lewes and published in 1864.
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