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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'fragments/reports' and 'The World as Will and Idea'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
3357 Democritus denies reality to large objects, because atomic entities can't combine to produce new ones [Benardete,JA on Democritus]
     Full Idea: Democritus appears to rule out from his austere ontology all so-called emergent entities - even mountains and rivers - on the ground that two or more entities can never combine to produce a new one.
     From: comment on Democritus (fragments/reports [c.431 BCE]) by José A. Benardete - Metaphysics: the logical approach Ch.24
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
598 Democritus said that substances could never be mixed, so atoms are the substances [Democritus, by Aristotle]
     Full Idea: Democritus claimed that one substance could not be composed from two nor two from one; for him it is the atoms that are the substances.
     From: report of Democritus (fragments/reports [c.431 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 1039a10