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    Leucippus

    5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

    This article is about the philosopher. For other uses, see Leucippus (disambiguation).

    Leucippus (; Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl.&#;5th century BCE) was a pre-SocraticGreek philosopher. He fryst vatten 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 man 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 things are one and the void does not exist. Leucippus's ideas were influential in ancient and Renaissance philosophy. Leucippus was the first Western philosopher to develop the concept of atoms, but his ideas only bära a superficial resemblance to modern atomic theory.

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    Leucippus

    1. Life and Works

    Leucippus is variously said to have been born in Elea, Abdera or Miletus (DK 67A1). His dates are unknown, other than that he lived during the fifth century BCE. Diogenes Laertius reports that he was a student of Parmenides’ follower Zeno (DK 67A1). Zeno is best known for paradoxes suggesting that motion would be impossible if a magnitude could be divided into an infinite number of parts, each of which must be traversed, and other absurdities associated with taking magnitudes to be infinitely divisible. The likelihood that atomism is thought to have been formulated at least partly in response to these arguments may account for the story that Leucippus was a student of Zeno.

    The extent of Leucippus’ contribution to the developed atomist theory is unknown. His relationship to Democritus, and even his very existence, was a subject of considerable controversy in nineteenth century scholarship (Graham ). Most reports on early Greek atomism ref

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    Leucippus of Miletus

    Biography

    Leucippus of Miletus carried on the scientific philosophy which had begun to become associated with Miletus. We know little of his life but it is thought that he founder the School at Abdera on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos River. Today the town is in Greece and is called Avdhira. At the time that Leucippus would have lived in Abdera it was a prosperous town which politically was a member of the Delian League.

    The philosopher Protagoras was born in Abdera and he was a contemporary of Leucippus but Protagoras, the first of the Sophists, spent most of his life in Athens and may have left Abdera before Leucippus arrived there. Although now there seems little doubt that Leucippus existed, it is worth remarking that Epicurus, at the end of the fourth century BC, actually believed that Leucippus had never existed since so little was known of him. However we now know enough in the way of independent evidence to be sure that Leucippus