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Atomism: Democritus And Epicurus
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In the Atomists, we see pluralism taken as far as it could possibly go.
We see Democritus and Epicurus divide all the world, as well as the universe,
into two categories; atoms and empty space. Everything else is merely thought
to exist. The atoms are eternal, infinite in size and number and th ....
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outside influence, but rather the motion of the atoms themselves. He never
accounts for the initiation of this motion. He simply states that it is an
inherent quality of the atoms themselves.
Epicurus, on the other hand, wanted to find a reasoning behind the
initial movement of the atoms; to find the cause of the initial collisions
which start the creation process of the universe.
Through observation of objects falling “down” within our limited
perceptual space, Epicurus concluded tha.... |
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