Can we attach meaning to the question: 'What are the fundamental units of the Universe?' Is this a question for Physics?
Is Descartes' claim that the physical Universe is a plenum coherent? (Can you have movement in a plenum?) Is the alternative, atomism, coherent? (Can you have an indivisible something that occupies space?)
What is it for a thing to be a physical' / 'material' object? D. says: extension.
His argument against 'hardness' being an essential property. Jen's smell object.
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