Democritean

Leonteus, a principal disciple of Epicurus, who in a letter which he writ to Lycophron says, that Epicurus honored Democritus, because he first attained, though a little at a distance, the right and sound understanding of the truth, and that in general all the treatise concerning natural things was called Democritean, because

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

If this is so, any hope of reconstructing in detail a "Democritean" anthro - pology (as attempted most recently by Thomas Cole) seems doomed to failure.

PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968

This clearly undermines the Democritean mereological concept of elementarity, in which a composite entity has a unique decomposition into a set of indivisible entities.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

The Democritean vision of elementary particles as miniature snooker balls, however, has been somewhat vitiated by quantum theory, and it is not merely the classical notion of a particle as a localisable entity which has been undermined, but the mereological notion that a composite system has a unique decomposition into elementary entities.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

I tried to read the foreward of “The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature” (Doctoral Dissertation of Karl Marx) few months earlier but understood nothing.

The First Quantum Cosmologist Sean 2008

Pyrrho's skepticism may be an extension of aspects of Democritean thought which he would have studied with Anaxarchus, who is also notable for skeptical tendencies and whom Pyrrho followed to India.

Ancient Skepticism Groarke, Leo 2008

Although conscious, living matter was a problem for Democritean philosophers, it was not for other pre-Socratics nor for Aristotle for whom living beings where paradigmatic.

Life Weber, Bruce 2008

Mathematical techniques that were absent when Karl Marx wrote his seminal PhD thesis titled "The difference between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature", now teaches us that self-organisation is the most efficient and robust technique of organising complex systems and therefore of accumulating capital.

The anatomy of capital and the National Democratic Revolution 2007

Mathematical techniques that were absent when Karl Marx wrote his seminal PhD thesis titled "The difference between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature", now teaches us that self-organisation is the most efficient and robust technique of organising complex systems and therefore of accumulating capital.

CONTENTS 2007

Democritus, who receives of him an excellent and worthy reward for his instruction; it being certain that Epicurus for a long time called himself a Democritean, which as well others affirm, as

Essays and Miscellanies 2004