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Comment author: gwern 06 August 2014 04:16:55PM 3 points [-]

The atomists were more right than the alternatives: the world is not made of continuously divisible bone substances, which are bone no matter how finely you divide them, nor is it continuous mixtures of fire or water or apeiron.