"Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, colour by convention; atoms and Void (alone) exist in reality."
— Atomic theory

January 1, 1970

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Democritus (5th century BCE) Tetralogies of Thrasyllus 9. sext. adv. math. VII 135, Tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels (1948)