in a vacuum

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in a vacuum

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Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis. He is fond of saying that "nothing happens in a vacuum", by which he means that external factors always matter in at least some ways; sometimes he exaggerates this principle by claiming polemically that "there are no coincidences".

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@misc{in_a_vacuum_2026,
  title = {in a vacuum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/in%20a%20vacuum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}