(August 20, 2016 at 6:03 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 5:26 pm)Esquilax Wrote: ... Yes, and that specific arrangement of empty space and matter is what we call "physical reality." That is how we have defined that: simply laying it out in greater detail doesn't separate it from its definition.Agreed, but the contrast is important. It is like calling a bubble made of steel, "steel" whereas a solid sphere is much more steely.
In fact, the empty space itself is still physical, since we don't define the physical world simply by whether or not it has stuff occupying it. For example, the space between the walls in my house is still physical space, it's not metaphysical. Hell, even the vacuum of space is still physical space, not metaphysical.
Which is an inapt comparison, because you're making a distinction between steel and the space inside the bubble that doesn't apply in discussions of "empty" space as physical. In the case of matter, that empty space is still, itself, physical. A much more accurate comparison would be the difference between a solid steel ball and a hollow steel ball that has been filled with molten steel; we're talking about different forms of the same basic thing, not different things entirely.
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