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	Leucippus
		Leucippus is variously said to have been born in Elea, Abdera or Miletus (DK 67A1).
		Leucippus is named by most sources as the originator of the theory that the universe consists of two different elements, which he called ‘the full’ or ‘solid,’ and ‘the empty’ or ‘void’.
		Leucippus apparently formulated this position in response to the Eleatic claim that ‘what is’ must be one and unchanging, because any assertion of differentiation or change within ‘what is’ involves the assertion of ‘what is not,’ an unintelligible concept.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/leucippus (1188 words)

	G.W.F HEGEL - Lectures on the History of Philosophy - G.W F Hegel (1805 - 1806) - Part One: Greek Philosophy E. ...
		Leucippus is the older, and Democritus perfected what the former began, but it is difficult to say what properly speaking belongs to him historically.
		Leucippus is the originator of the famous atomic system which, as recently revived, is held to be the principle of rational science.
		Since Leucippus and Democritus wished to go further, the necessity of a wore definite distinction thaii this superficial one of union and separation was introduced, and they sought to bring this about by ascribing diversity to atoms, and, indeed, by making their diversity infinite.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /hegel12.htm (3502 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 1.6
		Leucippus is said to have been a native of Elea, but also of Miletus; there seem to be better reasons for regarding him as a Milesian, although there is little strong evidence either way.
		Leucippus and his associate Democritus hold that the elements are the full and the void; they call them being and not-being respectively.
		Leucippus and Democritus were said to have maintained that each world is enclosed in a kind of skin, formed by the linking of hooked atoms, and through this more atoms were taken in after the initial stages of world-formation.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp106.htm (4737 words)

	STEFAN STENUDD - Leucippus. Cosmos of the Ancients ----------- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leucippus and Democritus have the essence of their cosmology in common, some basic terminology of it probably invented by the former, though the latter is by far the most famous of the two, and more well-documented.
		The unlimited all, according to Leucippus, is made up of part full and part empty, and to him those are the real elements — full being the atoms and empty being the space between them.
		In the atomic cosmos of Leucippus there is neither room nor mission for any gods, to the extent that he not even would have needed to deny their existence.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/leucippus.htm (565 words)

	Leucippus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leucippus or Leukippos (5th century BC) was the originator of atomism, the philosophical belief that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms.
		There are no existing writings which we can attribute to Leucippus, since his writings seem to have been enfolded into the work of his famous student Democritus (q.v.
		Leucippus was born at Miletus (or some said Elea, for his philosophy is associated with the Eleatic philosophers), a contemporary of Zeno, Empedocles and Anaxagoras of the Ionian school of philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leucippus (183 words)

	Cls 189 short web paper
		Leucippus is credited with writing only a few works, including The Great World System, in which he postulates his theory on atoms and void.
		Leucippus' theory was a reaction to the theories of Parmenides and Zeno; it was an attempt at a reconciliation of elliptic principles and our senses.
		Leucippus theorized that this theory could not be correct; since our senses tell us that there is motion.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Marc/short_paper.html (877 words)

	Leucippus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Certainly it seems that Leucippus was much influenced in his thinking by Zeno of Elea and by Parmenides, but it seems relatively unlikely that there is any truth in the later claim that he was a pupil of Zeno of Elea.
		It seems likely that Democritus as a pupil of Leucippus, developed the ideas of his teacher but it is quite beyond us to disentangle the contributions of each to this important doctrine.
		He was in a position to be able to distinguish the works of Leucippus from those of Democritus and we shall describe his views on this matter.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Leucippus.html (721 words)

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		Leucippus was supposed to be born in Abdera, Elea or Miletus, none of which is certain.
		Leucippus should be considered as the founder of the Atomist philosophy.
		Leucippus' solution is a quite bald one, namely that there "is" void in a certain sense, i.e., in a different sense from that of Being's existing.
	www.csudh.edu /phenom_studies/greekphil/greek08.htm (2493 words)

	Leucippus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Leucippus was the first philosopher to affirm, with a full consciousness of what he was doing, the existence of empty space.
		The assumption of empty space, however, made it possible to affirm that there was an infinite number of such reals, invisible because of their smallness, but each possessing all the marks of the Parmenidean One, and in particular each indivisible like it.
		Leucippus explained the phenomenon of weight from the size of the atoms and their combustions, but he did not regard weight itself as a primary property of bodies.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/l/leucippu.htm (764 words)

	Atomic Theory
		Leucippus and Democritus, both Athenians of the classical period, laid down the theoretical groundwork upon which Epicurus did his later metaphysical explorations.
		Leucippus however found sensible the notion that there was indeed plurality to the real.
		Leucippus and Democritus stressed that the soul atoms must be protected from violent upheaval of an either physical or emotional nature.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~fiorile/atomic7.html (905 words)

	Leucippus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Besides space there was body, and to this Leucippus ascribed all the characteristics of Parmenides notion of the real.
		Aristotle distinctly says that none of his predecessors had said anything of absolute weight and lightness, but only of relative weight and lightness, and Epicurus was the first to ascribe weight to atoms.
		The solitary fragment of Leucippus we possess is to the effect that 'Naught happens for nothing, but all things from a ground (logos) and of necessity'.
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/leucippus.php (774 words)

	LEUCIPPUS - LoveToKnow Article on LEUCIPPUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Epicurus, however, distinguishes Leucippus from Democritus, and Aristotle and Theophrastus expressly credit lim with the invention of Atomism.
		Between Leucippus and Democritus there is an interval of at least forty years; accordingly, while the beginnings of Atomism are closely connected with the doctrines of the Eleatics, the system as developed yy Democritus is conditioned by the sophistical views of his time, especially those of Protagoras.
		While Leucippus's notion of Being agreed generally with that of the Eleatics, he postulated its plurality (atoms) and motion, and the reality of not-Being (the void) in which his atoms moved.
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEUCIPPUS.htm (203 words)

	Leucippus -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Epicurus' predecessors were in physics Leucippus and Democritus and in ethics Antiphon Sophista, Aristippus of Cyrene, and Eudoxus of Cnidus, a geometer and astronomer.
		Painted on it are scenes from the stories of the “Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” and “Heracles in the Garden of the Hesperides.” Also attributed to him are a hydria...
		Leucippus is known only through his influence on Democritus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047937 (711 words)

	History of Philosophy 5
		They accept the dualistic ideas which characterize the Later Ionian philosophy, but by their substitution of necessity for intelligent force they abandon all that dualistic philosophy had to bequeath to them, and fall lower than the level which the early hylozoists had reached.
		It was at Miletus that the Ionian philosophy first appeared, and it was Miletus that produced Leucippus, the founder of Atomism, who virtually brings the first period of Greek philosophy to a close.
		Even if the dates of Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Leucippus were known more definitely than they are, it would still be a matter of no small difficulty to show in what degree each philosopher depended on and in turn influenced the thought and writings of the others.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop05.htm (1443 words)

	SparkNotes: Presocratics: The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus
		Democritus was the student of Leucippus, and he is the figure through whom atomism has been transmitted to later generations.
		It is not known how much of his theory is simply a repetition of Leucippus's teaching and how much of it is original to him, but it was he who brought atomism to public attention and who made it a matter of philosophical controversy.
		Leucippus was impressed by both of these arguments and was persuaded of their truth.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/presocratics/section10.rhtml (1436 words)

	Leucippus
		Aristotle quotes Leucippus: "Unless there is a void with a separate being of its own, 'what is' cannot be moved-nor again can it be 'many', since there is nothing to keep things apart." (p.
		Although there was speculation about sub-atomic structure in the 1800's after John Dalton introduced the atom idea on a solid scientific basis, it was not until 1897 and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron that the atom was shown to have an internal structure.
		According to Aristotle: "Democritus and Leucippus say that there are indivisible bodies, infinite both in number and in the varieties of their shapes...." (p.
	www.neutron.anl.gov /hyper-physics/old-leuc.html (1213 words)

	Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Democritus 460-370 B.C. Leucippus was the founder of the so-called Atomistic school of philosophy.
		Two of the works of Leucippus are the ñLarge Universeî and "On the Mind".
		Leucippus and Democritus agree with Parmenides that Becoming and Decay in substance are impossible.
	www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/Atomists.htm (573 words)

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		Obviously, as a contemporary of Anaxagoras, Leucippus was, at least, acquainted with his conception of nous (intellect, mind, reason), which had negated anánke, perhaps, this is why Leucippus, in his atomism, with such strict fervour, had revindicated the Heracleitean conception of cosmic justice, of anánke - which later on was developed more rigorously by Democritus.
		Consequently, Leucippus and Democritus, in scientific enquiry and investigation of the cosmos, had rejected pure tyché as a quintessential gnostic principle.
		Evidently, the natural scientists Leucippus and Democritus were still living in the aurora of the science of physics, that is, of quantitative and qualitative physics.
	www.homestead.com /pandemonium3/files/praxistheory00010.html (6501 words)

	College Papers-Atomic Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		At this time Greek philosophy was about 150 years old, emerging in the sixth century bc, centered in the city of miletus on the ionian coast in Asia minor, which is now turkey.
		The work of leucippus and Democritus was further developed by epicures (341-270 BC) of Samos.
		Most of what we know about leucippus and Democritus was found in a poem entitled "de rerum natura" (on the nature of things) written by Lucretius (95-55 BC).
	www.college-papers.org /free_essays/physics/atomic-theorymnn.html (1368 words)

	Leucippus
		Leucippus is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Leucippus taught that space is filled with atoms -- really monads -- in ceaseless motion, and Epicurus and Lucretius added the idea of affinity, though doubtless Leucippus had the same idea in mind.
		This school taught that atoms were the foundation-bricks of the universe, for atom in the original etymological sense of the word means something that cannot be cut or divided, and therefore as being equivalent to particles of what theosophists call homogeneous substance.
	www.experiencefestival.com /leucippus (875 words)

	The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus - Atomism
		Those who abandoned division to infinity on the grounds that we cannot divide to infinity and as a result cannot guarantee that the division cannot end, declared that bodies are composed of indivisible things and are divided into indivisibles.
		Except that Leucippus and Democritus hold that the cause of the primary bodies' indivisibility is not only their inability to be affected but also their minute size and lack of parts.
		Leucippus and his associate Democritus declare the full and the void to be the elements, calling the former “what is” and the other “what is not.” Of these, the one, “what is,” is full and solid, the other, “what is not,” is void and rare.
	www.philledgerwood.com /atomists/atomism.html (1236 words)

	Leucippus Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some say that Aphareus and Leucippus were the sons of Perieres the son of Aeolus, and that Cynortes begat [another] Perieres, and that [this] Perieres begat Oebalus, and Oebalus begat Tyndareus, Hippocoon and Icarius by a Naiad nymph Batia;
		seems to say that there was one Perieres who was the son of Aeolus and the father of Aphareus and Leucippus, and that there was another Perieres who was the son of Cynortes and the father of Oebalus; this Oebalus married Bateia and was the father of Tyndareus, Hippocoon and Icarius.
		Pausanias says Perieres was the son of Aeolus, that Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus, married Perieres, son of Aeolus, and had two sons, Aphareus and Leucippus; then Perieres died; Gorgophone married Oebalus, son of Cynortas, and had a son Tyndareus.
	www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i1154Sources.htm (237 words)

	Democritus of Abdera and other atomists
		He was a student of Leucippus (and maybe Philolaus).
		Some (Epicurus) saids that Leucippus did not exist and that this name was used by Democritus as a pseudonym.
		Democritus and Leucippus believed that growth was the joining of small particles to other particles, disassociation the opposite.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Atoms.htm (2556 words)

	The Necklace of Democritus
		The atomic theory of matter was first proposed by Leucippus, a Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century before Christ.
		Leucippus's atomic theory was further developed by his disciple, Democritus, (the subject of our story) who concluded that infinite divisibility of a substance belongs only in the imaginary world of mathematics and should not be applied to physics because he believed that in the real world matter is composed of discrete particles.
		I shall present the necklace to the wife of Leucippus, so that when he sees it, he will understand how small the atoms are.
	www.funsci.com /fun3_en/democritus/democritus.htm (1009 words)

	Leucippus at PhilosophyClassics.com -- essays, resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LEUCIPPUS, Greek philosopher, born at Miletus (or Elea), founder of the Atomistic theory, contemporary of Zeno, Empedocles and Anaxagoras.
		Epicurus, however, distinguishes Leucippus from Democritus, and Aristotle and Theophrastus expressly credit him with the invention of Atomism.
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