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14037 | Atoms only have shape, weight and size, and the properties which accompany shape [Epicurus] |
Full Idea: One must believe that the atoms bring with them none of the qualities of things which appear except shape, weight, and size and the properties which necessarily accompany shape. | |
From: Epicurus (Letter to Herodotus [c.293 BCE], 54) | |
A reaction: This appears to be fairly precisely a claim that atoms only have primary qualities, though that terminology only came in in the seventeenth century. I take the view to be more or less correct. |