• Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher that was intrigued in the same ideas as Parmenides.
• He eventually came to a very similar conclusion.

1. Nothing can be made from nothing.
2. That which exists cannot become nonexistent.
3. There are at least some things that are eternal immutable atoms (atomos = indivisible).
4. Change and movement are real.
5. There exists a large amount of identical atoms and they must be moving.
6. Atoms must be situated in and be moving in something which does not exist: a vacuum.
7. Also the nonexistent exists.