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Ancient Greek atomism, starting with Leucippus and Democritus in the fifth century bc, arose as a response to problems of the continuum raised by Eleatic philosophers. In time a distinction emerged, especially in Epicurean atomism (early third century bc), between physically indivisible particles called ‘atoms’ and absolutely indivisible or ‘partless’ magnitudes.