His only surviving fragment of writing is the phrase, "Naught happens for nothing, but all things from a logos and of necessity," though he may have written The Great World System. Aristotle gives an account of how his philosophy had developed as a response to Parmenides' arguments about change. Particularly, he argues that the void is just as real as matter, and thought of the void like a vacuum, as opposed to the Pythagorean identification of the vacuum with air. Epicurus denied his existence, and writers later than Theophrastus seem unable to distinguish properly between his works and those
His only surviving fragment of writing is the phrase, "Naught happens for nothing, but all things from a logos and of necessity," though he may have written The Great World System. Aristotle gives an account of how his philosophy had developed as a response to Parmenides' arguments about change. Particularly, he argues that the void is just as real as matter, and thought of the void like a vacuum, as opposed to the Pythagorean identification of the vacuum with air. Epicurus denied his existence, and writers later than Theophrastus seem unable to distinguish properly between his works and those of his more prolific pupil, a native of Abdera. For 10 points, identify this supposed pupil of Zeno and teacher of Democritus, the originator of the atomic theory.
His only surviving fragment of writing is the phrase, "Naught happens for nothing, but all things from a logos and of necessity," though he may have written The Great World System.
{Leucippus}