vacuist

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"At the present moment," I said, "I'm a perfectly convincible vacuist."

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  1. One who holds the doctrine of the reality of empty spaces in nature: opposed to plenist. And the vacuists will have this advantage, that if Mr. Hobbes shall say that it is as lawful for him to assume a plenum as for others to assume a vacuum, not only it maybe answered it is also as lawful for them to assume the contrary, and he but barely assuming, not proving, a plenum, his doctrine will still remain questionable. Boyle, Examen of Hobbes, ii.

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  • "At the present moment," I said, "I'm a perfectly convincible vacuist." —  Simon the Jester
 

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