These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.


Quoted in Aristotle, Metaphysics A 4 985b 13–16. Trans. Hugh Tredennick (1933), Vol. 1

Democritus Quotes

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact,...

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact,...

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact,...

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact,...