Lockean solidity
= Lockean solidity
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In <John Locke>'s terminology, a body's exclusion of another body from the space it occupies. This is not the material-science notion of <hardness>: <John Locke> treats water as solid in this sense while distinguishing its yielding response from a diamond's resistance.<An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke>[Book II, chapter IV, especially section 4: https://barryfvaughan.org/text/philtext/locke/bk2/4.html]{ref}