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Fragment 9

Democritus•Fragments•Fragment 9•1 min read

9. Sweetness exists by convention, bitterness by convention, and colour by convention; in reality, only atoms and the void exist. We possess no exact knowledge of what is real, but only perceptions that vary with the state of the body and the nature of what flows toward it and strikes it.