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Atomism  n.  The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.






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"Atomism" Quotes from Famous Books



... fastened everywhere upon the aspects of life least suggestive of either iron uniformity or harmonious evolution. The abrupt demarcations which he everywhere imposes or discovers were the symptom of a primitive ingrained atomism of thought which all the synthetic strivings of a God-intoxicated intellect could ...
— Robert Browning • C. H. Herford

... on immortality was not without its natural results. They explored the world of metaphysical speculation. There is scarcely an hypothesis advanced by philosophers in ancient or modern times, which may not be found in the Brahmanical writings. "We find in the writings of these Hindus materialism, atomism, pantheism, Pyrrhonism, idealism. They anticipated Plato, Kant, and Hegel. They could boast of their Spinozas and their Humes long before Alexander dreamed of crossing the Indus. From them the Pythagoreans borrowed a great part of their mystical philosophy, of their doctrine of transmigration of ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord

... conception is seductive from a certain standpoint: for some time the tendency has been toward atomism. Matter appears to us as formed of indivisible atoms; electricity is no longer continuous, not infinitely divisible. It resolves itself into equally-charged electrons; we have also now the magneton, or atom of magnetism. From ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick



Words linked to "Atomism" :   atomistic, psychology, theory, chemistry, atomistic theory, holism, atomistical, chemical science



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