"The implied meaning of 'destroying' something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this can not be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality can not be destroyed, for the thing could not have existed in the first place."
- Epicurus elaborating on Parmenides' "Ex nihilo nihil fit" (Nothing comes from nothing)
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