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In the fourth century bc Greek scholars rejected Democritus ideas about the atom. This rejection was mostly based on ?

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The belief that his opponents had that the senses were more reliable than intellect. Intellect can imagine a reality, but the senses try to grasp reality by connection with what we see or hear or smell or taste or touch.

The problem is that both can be right.

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