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Leucippus

Leucippus (/luːˈsɪpəs/; Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl. 5th century BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is 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 make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists…

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Born
5th century BCE Abdera or Elea or Miletus
Era
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Main interests
Metaphysics, cosmology
Notable ideas
The concept of atoms
Notable students
Democritus
Region
Western philosophy

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related to Historicity · 24
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related to Life · 23
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related to Ancient Greece · 21
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related to Eleatics and the void · 20
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related to Modern era · 15
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related to Cosmology · 11
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related to Works · 9
Leucippus → Megas Diakosmos, Nothing, On Mind, Peri Nou, The Great Cosmology, The Great World Order, The Great World System, This, Two
related to Atoms · 8
Leucippus → According, Aristotle, BCE, Democritus, He, His, The, They
related to Soul and perception · 7
Leucippus → Death, Democritus, Empedocles, He, His, Sleep, They

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texture are created by different arrangements of atomsinstance ofLeucippus posited that concepts0.80text
and that abstract concepts such as justiceinstance ofLeucippus posited that concepts0.80text

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