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Leucippus
Leucippus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists between the atoms. He developed his philosophy as a response to the Eleatics, who believed that all thing…
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science · 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher · philosopher · physicist · also Leucippus, Leucippus of Miletus
Born 500 BC · Died 500 BC · Q165589
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The philosopher Daniel Graham wrote that no significant work on the historicity of Leucippus has been produced since the early 20th century, arguing that "recent scholarship tends to avoid the question as much as possibl
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