CHAP. VI. Of PLACE. p. 62.
SECT. I.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe Identity Essential of a Vacuum and Place, the cause of the praesent Enquiry into the Nature of Place.
- ibid.
- 2 Among all the Quaeries about the Hoti of Place; the most important is, Whethor Epi∣curus or Aristotles Definition of it, be most a∣daequate.
- ibid.
- 3 The Hypothesis of Aristotles Definition
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- 4 A convenient supposition inferring the necessi∣ty of Dimentions Incorporeal.
- ibid.
- 5 The Legality of that supposition.
- ibid.
- 6 The Dimensions of Longitude, Latitude, and Profundity, imaginable in a Vacuum.
- 64
- 7 The Grand Peripatetick objection, that No∣thing is in a Vacuum; ergo no Dimensions.
- ibid.
- 8 Des Chartes, and Mr. White seduced by the plausibility of the same.
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- 9 The Peripateticks reduction of Time and Place to the General Categories of Substan∣ces and Accidents, the cause of this Epidemick mistake.
- ibid.
- 10 Place neither Accident nor Substance.
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- 11 The praecedent Giant-Objection, that No∣thing is in a Vacuum; stab'd, at a blow.
- ibid
- 12 Dimensions Corporeal and Incorporeal, or Spatial.
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- 13 The former supposition reassumed and enlar∣ged.
- ibid.
- 14 The scope and advantage thereof; viz. the comprehension of three eminent Abstrusities concerning the Nature of Place.
- ibid.
- 15 The Incorporiety of Dimentions Spatial, Discriminated from that of the Divine Es∣sence, and other Substances Incorporeal.
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- 16 This persuasion, of the Improduction and Independency of Place; praeserved from the suspition of Impiety.
- ibid.
SECT. II.
ARTIC.
- 1 PLace, not the immediate superfice of the Body invironing the Locatum; contra∣ry to Aristotle.
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- 2 Salvo's for all the Difficult Scruples, touching the nature of Place; genuinely extracted from Epicurus his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
- ibid
- 3 Aristotles ultimate Refuge.
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- 4 The Invalidity thereof: and the Coexistibili∣ty, or Compatibility of Dimensions Corpo∣real and Spatial.
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