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 | | We have already seen within the context of the mythological-philosophical origins of the concept of Space, specifically with regard to the terms "tó kenón" and "oudén", that there are two philosophical streams of Greek thought concerning problems 2 and 3: One of them, the Atomists (Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus), associated Space with vacuum and motion. |
 | | They considered vacuum the conditio sine qua non for the smallest particles of matter, the atoms, to be able to move; whereas the other school of thought, the Eleatics (Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zenon), associated Space with plenum and rest, and denied any possible motion. |
 | | The Euclidean, three-dimensional concept of space and a correspondingly linear-homogeneous concept of time are not only the conditio sine qua non for "rest" and "motion" to make formal-logical sense, but also form the mayor underlying premises, both of determinism and of the vision of nature as a continuum, where necessity, causality and predictability reign. |
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