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plenism

(ˈpliːnɪzəm)
n
(Philosophy) philosophy the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
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plenism

the theory that nature contains no vacuums. Cf. vacuism.plenist, n.
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The second exemplifies how Kant's transcendental philosophy has implications for empirical science, here chemistry; how axioms of his theory of matter (plenism, dynamism, and continualism), of which extension and impenetrability are not primary qualities but derive from more fundamental attractive and repulsive forces which occur in varying intensity ratios, involve the challenge to develop fitting pieces of substantive chemical theory.