as, there is more than one existing thing, in fact, "perhaps unlimitedly many" things (203). He "is thus committed to separable, countable objects bath macroscopic and microscopic" (205).
The Atomists, on the other hand, do believe that there is something indivisible into parts, namely, the atom: "Atoms are indivisible . . . building blocks too small to be seen." They are indivisible because "they cannot be affected, . . . are so small, and . . . have no parts" (310). McKirahan says, however, that there is "controversy" today over whether the Atomists "believed that atoms are geometrically or theoretically as well as physically indivisible" (312).
However, at least technically, it can be fairly said that the Atomists did nevertheless believe that there is more than one existing thing aside from atoms, namely, the void. The void is posed as not only the realm in which atoms are not present, but as a thing in and of itself, although McKirahan finds "riddles" in this Atomist posi
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