 Okay, so remember what Empedocles had to say about Love and hate, right? These are two forces. They're not the same force, right? That's not Love and hate within the one thing, right? It's love and hate. These are two opposing forces and These two forces are somehow equally matched and all this goes through a cycle of creation and destruction And you know at Exegora, it's like, well come on, you know That's not very formative, right? You know, in the text, right? It says that In Exegora's thought it was too metaphorical Well, you know instead of Just appealing to two forces, right? And Exegora's reduces down to one. He says it's not Love and hate that causes the Construction and destruction, the composition, decomposition of these things. It's one force. It's mind And this is real familiar to us since we all have a mind, right? We know what it is to have a mind and to even create using our minds So he reduced, so in his eyes, he's reduced the number of forces down from two to just one Right? Not love and hate, but just mind Now, Exegora's wouldn't have been familiar with this phrase It's called Occam's razor. Occam's lived several, many centuries after Exegora's. And you might have heard the phrase Occam's razor before But the idea is this, if, you know, given equal Explanatory value between two competing theories, given equal explanatory value, the simpler Theory or the one that Supposes the fewest number, you know, the fewest kinds of things that exist That one's more rational or to be preferred. What's the phrase? So, you know, in Exegora's is saying this, look, I can explain how all of this is composed and decomposed using just one force as opposed to two So this theory is better So we've got forces, but Exegora says there's still more to improve upon, right? Empedocles has four kinds of particles, earth, wind, fire, and water. It's not just disco anymore And uh, Exegora says, yeah, okay, that's good But he's going to push it even further, right? So remember what he says? Yeah, technically there's like many, many, many, many different kinds of particles But the particles, the kinds exist kind of on two spectrums, right? You've got the heavy The moist The dark Particles and then we've got the light the airy The dry particles, right? And the particles exist on kind of this the spectrum and it's through the process of this vortex, right? That the particles are separated. So if you ever seen a centrifuge do its work, you know, the you know, the vials of plasma are spinning and The different, you know, the substances of different densities they separate out from each other Well, Anaxegoras has the same thing of mine, right? So instead of four kinds of particles earth, wind, fire, and water He now he's just got two Broadly kind particles. He simplified things down on this spectrum He got the light the airy the dry particles and the heavy the moist the dark particles, right? So Down from four kinds of particles to two So he so Anaxegoras thinks he's improving because he's produced a number of forces from two down to one And the number of kinds of particles from four down to two