# Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position

Date: 350

## The fact

The main surviving physics witness is an attack. [Democritus](/people/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. Do not assign Aristotle's book to Democritus. 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. Democritus did not author that defeat-brief. Stored on this page because the public Democritus file is that hostile conservation.

## Context

Lyceum teaching. Theophrastus continues the report. Named others on the file: Aristotle; Theophrastus. The public setting is the file around -0350-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-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.

## Evidence and sources

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/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; 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/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle, natural philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Loss of the original books plus a hostile school brief. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A canonical refutation that is also the main surviving witness is an education-harm-and-opacity path for the attacked school. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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. Do not assign Aristotle's book to Democritus. Complex contribution: he is the subject of the brief. Mixed effects of Aristotle's surviving physics conserves Democritean atomism as a defeated school position are separate paths.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Democritus: https://factrail.ai/people/democritus

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dem-aristotle-hostile