|6o ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IV. 



C H A P. II. 



Space taken in tivo Senfes^ a larger and a jlricler — The Inquiry here 

 concerning Space hi the Jlri tier Senfe, that is^ 'void o/Body — Different 

 Opinions concerning Space — confidered by fome as different from Body 

 a7id Mind, and as a kind of Ritual to Deity — Space confidered upon 

 the Suppofition oj Nothing exifiing — Then Space is nothing but the 

 viere Capability oj receiving Body — In ivhat Senfe Space can be /aid to 

 have the three Dimenftons — Space confidered likeivife upon the Suppofi^ 

 iion (?/■ Deity exijling from all Eterfiity, but not the Material World — 

 Upon that Suppofition, likeivife. Space nothing but mere Potentiality — 

 LaOly, Space confidered upon the Suppofition of the Exiftence of the Ma- 

 ierial World — Upon that Suppoftion, it has no Exiftence but in Relation 

 o/'Body, and thai in three RefpeBs — but abfohtely, in it/elf, a mere 

 Non-entity — Place is nothing but Space filled vuith Body — From 

 thence arifes a floor t Definition o/' Space, viz. that it is Place, ^w»«,tt«, 

 or in Capacity. 



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PACE, taken in the moft general fcnfe, comprehends whatever 

 is extended, and may be meafured by the three dimenfions, 

 length, breadth, and depth. In this fenfe, it is the fame with exten- 

 fion. Now, Space, in this large fignification, is either occupied by 

 body, or it is not. If it be not, but is void of all matter, and con- 

 tains nothing, then it is Space in the ftrideft fignification of the word, 

 and as it is commonly ufed in Englifli philofophical language, being' 

 the fame with what is called a vacuum^ 



Whether 



