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plenum: a standalone construct

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plenum1 CONSTRUCTPlenum (fullness)JAMMER · FULL SPACE

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Physics & natural philosophy

Space completely filled with matter

In physics and natural philosophy a plenum is a region of space entirely filled with matter, with no void: the position, against the atomists, that there is no true vacuum and that space and body coincide. Jammer's Concepts of space traces this plenum conception from antiquity through Descartes, whose identification of extension with matter made the universe a continuous plenum in which motion is a closed circulation of displaced matter. The referent is a matter-filled continuum defined by the absence of empty space, a cosmological and metaphysical claim with nothing in common with an air-handling chamber beyond the shared Latin meaning of fullness.[1]

Unit
A continuum of space wholly occupied by matter
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
A conceptual claim rather than a measured quantity, assessed by whether a true void is admitted or denied

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body2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsceiling4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructschamber1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

  1. Jammer, M. (1993). Concepts of space: The history of theories of space in physics (3rd ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486271194

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