Anaxagoras 1. Why does Anaxagoras think that there is no limit in the smallness or largeness of things? 2. What does Anaxagoras mean when he says that "all things have a portion of everything?" 3. Why is Mind the exception such that it is mixed with no other things? 4. How do coming-to-be and passing-away resolve into mixture and separation ruled by Mind?
Democritus & Leucippus 5. What are the grounds for thinking that bodies are composed of indivisible things? 6. How are compounds produced? 7. What does Simplicius think Leucippus and Democritus hold as the cause of the indivisibility of atoms? 8. What line of reasoning does Aristotle claim the atomists use to reach the conclusion that there must be indivisible bodies? 9. How does Philoponus analyze what the atomists must mean when they speak of atoms coming into contact with each other? 10. How do atoms move? 11. How do atoms account for the differences in the taste of foods? 12. What is the difference between "legitimate" and "bastard" judgment?