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of one body is that which begins another. 3, that which is not part
of any body is nothing. Nothing is that which fills no space.
If one single point placed in a circle may be the starting point of
an infinite number of lines, and the termination of an infinite
number of lines, there must be an infinite number of points
separable from this point, and these when reunited become one again;
whence it follows that the part may be equal to the whole.
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The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies
no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the
beginning of another. 2. That which is no part of any body is called
nothing. 1. That which has no limitations, has no form. The
limitations of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the
surface of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that
body.
Of the line (47-48).
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DEFINITION OF THE NATURE OF THE LINE.
The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather
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