humanities.philosophy.objectivism

Reggie Perrin wrote:
>
> Actually, no, I wouldn't have, assuming our current best theories are
> true. The ancient Greeks thought that matter was ultimately composed of
> indivisible particles which they called "atoms". Our current best theory
> is that matter *is* ultimately composed of indivisible particles, which
> we now call "elementary particles". The error came long after the
> Greeks, when John Dalton first mistakenly identified the particles we
> know now as atoms with the Greek "atom". (Of course, ancient Greek
> atomists were wrong about many of the characteristics of atoms; it is
> your misfortune to have chosen one of the few things they were right
> about).

Aristotle believed the matter was infinitely divisible. Only some Greek
thinkers believed in ultimate indivisible particles of matter.

Bob Kolker