Athens was never one large block of decision-making, it was ripe with discussion and contrariety.
Anaxagoras once again sides with Parmenides; no coming into being or perishing
[Imagine coming up with an argument so good people straight up can’t do jack shit for centuries.], he also says you should trust your senses
The whole world is composed of an innumerable quantity of irreducible seeds, wood has wood “seeds” in it, etc.
New discovery - the mind. The mind is the cause of motion.
Democritus is a proponent of the theory of atoms: