Ian Pitchford

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Aristotle was one of those who did not believe in the idea of fundamental atoms. He thought that the elements were continuous in nature, that you could theoretically keep dividing my dice up into smaller and smaller pieces. He believed that fire, earth, air and water were elemental in the sense that they could not be divided into ‘bodies different in form’. If you kept dividing, you would still get water or air. If you take a glass of water then to the human eye, it appears to be a continuous structure which can theoretically be infinitely divided.
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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