What was the foremost cause of everything in Leucippus' worldview?
Divine will
Random chance
Collisions of atoms
Human action
Answer
Atoms were fundamental in Leucippus' philosophy. He believed that everything in the world is an aggregation of indivisible, indestructible atoms moving through empty space, colliding and coalescing to form all matter. These atoms, along with the void, or vacuum, were responsible for the structure and behavior of the cosmos, from the largest stars to the tiniest particles.
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