Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Democritus, Democritus of Abdera (1901), Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion, The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, Retrieved on 2012-04-23
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    23 APR 2012

     Nothing Exists but Atoms

    The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space. Everything else is merely thought to exist. The worlds are unlimited. They come into being and perish. Nothing can come into being from that which is not nor pass away into that which is not. Further, the atoms are unlimited in size and number, and they are borne along in the whole universe in a vortex, and thereby generate all composite things—-fire, water, air, earth. For even these are conglomerations of given atoms. And it is...
    Folksonomies: reductionism
    Folksonomies: reductionism
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    Everything else is "merely thought to exist."

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