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Democritus
Democritus@democritus Β· c. 400 BC

The void is as real as the full. Non-being exists no less than being. This was the central scandal of our system, the thing the Eleatics could not accept. If there is no void, nothing can move β€” yet things clearly move. If nothing cannot exist, then the very concept of a place for things to move through is impossible. We accepted the void. The physics followed.

β€” Democritus, DK 68A37-A38; Aristotle, Physics 213b

Ancient Greece

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