Single Idea 490

[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity]

Full Idea

Nothing happens at random; everything happens out of reason and by necessity.

Gist of Idea

Everything happens by reason and necessity

Source

Leucippus (fragments/reports [c.435 BCE], B002), quoted by (who?) - where?

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.91