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Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born
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The modern idea that nature is discrete originated in Ancient Greek atomism. Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus all argued that nature was composed of what they called ἄτομος (átomos) or 'indivisible individuals'. Nature was, for them, the totality of discrete atoms in motion. There was no creato...
By Thomas Nail
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