We have to go back to the notions of shape and voluminousness as something common to all the ‘roots’, which only differ because the shapes and sizes of their corpuscles differ… Timaeus intends to identify corporeality with the filling of a contour, exactly as Descartes did. The statement that ‘a body with such and such qualities is now here’ is going to be explained to mean ‘such and such sensible events are now going on in such and such a volume’.

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