Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position
The main surviving physics witness is an attack. In the causal graph this event strengthens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — a worsening welfare path.
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The main surviving physics witness is an attack. Democritus’s documented role is: Aristotle wrote the attack. Democritus did not author that defeat-brief. Stored on this page because the public Democritus file is that hostile conservation. Complex contribution: he is the subject of the brief. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Democritus's documented role is: Aristotle wrote the attack.
Context
Lyceum teaching. Theophrastus continues the report. Named others on the file: Aristotle; Theophrastus. The public setting is the file around -0350-01-01. The instrument stays Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position. The setting of Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position is the public file around -0350-01-01. Driver justice-judicial-independence-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position. Naming Democritus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0350-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Why it matters
Loss of the original books plus a hostile school brief. Welfare reading worsening. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Democritus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
Aristotle wrote the attack. Democritus did not author that defeat-brief. Stored on this page because the public Democritus file is that hostile conservation.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactAristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position
- strengthensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicators (4)Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 350 · verified
- Worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.72)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.7)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.69)
Observed
0.62 score from 0 to 1 · 0.25 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.37 score from 0 to 1 to 0.62 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
All indicators on this path (4)
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle natural philosophy neighbourhoodStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — DemocritusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Aristotle's natural philosophy pages and the Democritus SEP independently describe the hostile conservation. Official: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle, natural philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle, natural philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Aristotle's date is fourth century; Democritus is already dead as received. Established: a sourced public record of Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position under -0350-01-01.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position are separate paths.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorDemocritus
- contributed toFactAristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position
- strengthensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
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Factrail. (2026). Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dem-aristotle-hostile
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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