Leucippus and his associate Democritus say that the full and the empty are the elements, calling the one being and the other non-being-the full and solid being being, the empty non-being (whence they say being no more is than non-being, because the solid no more is than the empty); and they make these the material causes of things.
Leukipok eta bere laguna den Demokritok osagaiak Betea eta Hutsa direla esaten dute [batari "den-a" eta besteari "ez den-a" deituz], 5) Betea eta Sendoa "den-a" izanik, eta Hutsa, "ez den-a" (horregatik esaten dute "den-a", "ez den-a" baino gehiago ez dela, Gorputza Hutsa baino gehiago ere ez delako) eta hauexek direla den guztiaren kausa, hau materia den aldetik.