What did Democritus believe? Democritus: Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was born circa 460 BCE in Abdera and died around 370 BCE. Democritus is one of the founders of Western philosophy and science. Answer and Explanation: ...
Democritus was an ancient philosopher that lived between 460 and 370 BC. He was a presocratic philosopher who took an interest in materialism and atomism. He is well known for his formulation of the atomic theory laying the groundwork for other scholars to research on the topic later on....
and seeing him eat and drink and satisfy other natural necessities, would suppose him to have the feelings of hunger, thirst, &c., until informed by the boy himself that he did all these things with no feeling at all but that of sight and sound-is it not, I say, at least possible,...
Did Cicero write that kind ofrhetorical prose all the time?Key:(1) Marcus Tullius Cicero and Julius Caesar were two important prose writers(2) Ciceronian means Cicero's eloquent oratorical manner of writing, which has had an enormous influence onthe development of European prose.(3) No, he d...
14、The Greek historical writing writes mainly about wars. 15、受希腊文化影响的传教士St. Paul. Democritus (Materialism) 16、希腊文化中的哲学被基督教所吸收 17、① Euclid‘s Elements解析几何 It was in use in English schools until the early years of the 20th century. (历史地位) ...
accidental because (as we would say it) it wasnotintended, or, in Aristotelian parlance, because there wasnofinal cause. By the same token, Aristotle found the atomistic cosmos of Democritus “random” because it was purposeless, ridiculing him for making the cosmic order a product of chance....
By the same token, Aristotle found the atomistic cosmos of Democritus "random" because it was purposeless, ridiculing him for making the cosmic order a product of chance. • In contrast, half a century later Epicurus found the atomic world not random at all and introduced randomness through ...
https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html "the central conceptual point: that nature is described not by probabilities (which are always nonnegative), but by numbers called amplitudes" Ugh... that quote is taken from your link. Like, no. What we measure is re...
— Democritus 102 I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk 86 Life without freedom is not worth living. — Javier Milei 75 Life is not worth living if I cannot ...
After the original atomism of Democritus and the correlative ancient social contract theory of the Sophists had been forgotten, and prior to the revival of atomism in the seventeenth century, to conceive of human existence in a pre-social condition would have been nearly impossible. That's right...