Leucippus
Leucippus
the founder of the atomistic school of Grecian philosophy, and forerunner of Democritus (q.v.). Nothing is known concerning him, neither the time nor the place of his birth, nor the circumstances of his life.
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Leucippus
(a. 450 B.C.) A contemporary of Empedocles and Anaxagoras and founder of the School of Abdera, developed the fruitful principle that all qualitative differences in nature may be reduced to quantitative ones. Thus Leucippus breaks up the homogeneous “Being” of Parmenides into an infinity of equally homogeneous parts or atoms and he distributes these, in an infinite variety of forms, through infinite space. These small particles of “Being” are separated from one another by that which is not-Being, i.e. by empty space. “Becoming”, or the coming into being of things, is essentially the result of the motion of these atoms in space and their accidental coming together. — M.F.