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This is semantic.
Your postulates are:
1) A vacuum is nothing.
This is false. A vacuum is some space with no matter (or very little matter) in it.
2) Space is a vacuum.
This depends on what you mean by space. If you mean the space between planets and stars, then yes, this is largely empty, but there are various astral objects at different points throughout it, therefore not a vacuum. If you mean the space between, say, the furniture in your living room, this is occupied by air and so therefore not a vacuum.
Problem solved. Both postulates are false, so the argument is void (if you'll excuse the pun.)
The error originates from the intrinsic human notion that everything that exists is material. It helps in this instance to think of the universe in terms of space, time and matter. Time and space do not 'exist' in the same sense as porridge or Steve Guttenberg, but the concepts of space and time are definitley valid.
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