Of course Nicholas admits that some things seem to come into and go out of existence, but he asserts that this cannot really be so. They must consist of invisible parts that combine and disperse; the parts are eternal, while combination and dispersion are only changes of relation, and relations do not exist. So the next corollary is a thoroughgoing atomism. “Thus I have here sufficiently probable ways for concluding that the conclusion of the eternity of things is probable, but because I cannot show those tiny whitenesses coming and going like grains, some will perhaps not believe in them; but
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