Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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Xenocrates and Zeno of the Eleatic School contended that all Being was one and unchangeable, and that decay was non-Being. Parmenides had a similar belief. Opposed to these ideas was the doctrine of eternal change or transition, ceaseless flux and flow. Democritus, accepting in part the doctrine of Parmenides, evolved the Atomic philosophy, which treated from a scientific point of view, still lives in the atomic theory of today...