# Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god

Date: 428

## The fact

Worlds arise by necessity and atomic motion as later told, not by a demiurge. [Democritus](/people/democritus)’s documented role is: He is reported as explaining order without a designing craftsman. [Epicurus](/people/epicurus) later revises chance. This is not 1841 Marx. Do not store [Marx](/people/karl-marx)'s dissertation as fifth-century. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Democritus's documented role is: He is reported as explaining order without a designing craftsman. Epicurus later revises chance. This is not 1841 Marx.

## Context

Against later Platonic craftsman talk. Aristotle preserves the contrast by attacking it. Named others on the file: Aristotle; later Epicurus. The public setting is the file around -0428-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god. The setting of Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god is the public file around -0428-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

SEP and Aristotle's surviving physics independently locate the contrast. Official: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus, cosmology (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle natural philosophy neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/; 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 — Democritus, cosmology (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aristotle natural philosophy neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-natphil/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Democritus, cosmology (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Naturalist cosmology as public teaching. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A public anti-craftsman cosmology is an education path. 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 improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

No autograph cosmogony. Established: a sourced public record of Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god under -0428-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god under -0428-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store Marx's dissertation as fifth-century. Mixed effects of Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

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

Shared responsibility is part of Later reports attach a necessity-and-chance cosmology to Democritus rather than a craftsman god. Naming Democritus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0428-01-01 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## 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-necessity