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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Democritus

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A look at the life of Democritus of Abdera. He helped to develop a theory of atomism, explained in detail here. Other significant ideas he had included his theory of perception, a theory of the soul and its relationship to living things, his theory of knowledge, the concept of indivisibility in mathematics, his views on ethics, and his ideas about the development of human communities.

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