| Starting with the technical side, we have seen that the adoption of predicate logic as the basis of reasoning can lead to logical atomism. |
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| Two factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. |
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| Moreover, Descartes's mechanical philosophy was ultimately no different from all other forms of atomism. |
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| Many contemporary philosophers see the ultimate triumph of atomism as a victory for realism over positivism. |
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| This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism. |
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| There are natural alliances between Entity Realism and metaphysical atomism, and between Structural Realism and the Great-Field metaphysic. |
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| Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance. |
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| If sectionalism and secession are freely allowed, on the other hand, the social structure of a minority group will collapse into atomism. |
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| Their atheism was based on a theory of atomism, which they were the first to propose. |
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| The principal one, a child of its times, was molecular associationism, a metaphoric extension of the atomism of nineteenth-century physics. |
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| The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics. |
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| The phenomenon of isomerism is often regarded as a success for atomism. |
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| The indestructibility of matter was part of the doctrine of atomism, linking logically with a notion of matter's infinite extension. |
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| Another set of phenomena providing opportunities to develop atomism involved the effects of solutes on solutions. |
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| So the two notions come together, atomism and the concept of an infinite universe. |
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| In his view, just as Newton had explained Kepler's laws with his new mechanics, so he, Dalton, had explained the laws of proportion with his atomism. |
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| The contrast with Russell, who continued the main line of British empiricism, in terms of what might be called the standard analysis, logical atomism, couldn't be more stark. |
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| Gassendi, for example, embarked on a wholehearted revival and modification of Epicurean atomism, which had a considerable impact on natural philosophy. |
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| He believed in atomism and defended a mechanistic explanation of nature. |
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| Social atomism sees individual people as the fundamental particles, autonomous ultimate units in full charge of their destiny, empowered to make contracts freely. |
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| By that time atomism had been extended from chemistry and the kinetic theory to offer explanations in stereochemistry, electro-chemistry, spectroscopy and so on. |
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| One slight difference is that Democritus's atomism is deterministic whereas the atomism of Lucretius and Epicurus is random. |
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| It was only in the nineteenth century that atomism began to bear significant fruit in science, with the emergence of atomic chemistry and the kinetic theory of gases. |
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| Because of this, they could not convince everybody, so atomism was but one of a number of competing theories on the nature of matter. |
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| He is usually credited with inventing atomism. |
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| The materialist perspective of atomism places us in a different relation to time, by reminding us of the dirt we haunt and our obligation to it. |
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| David Bostock provides an exposition and evaluation of Bertrand Russell's logical atomism. |
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| In doing so, he minutely described and anticipated the entropy and atomism of quantum physics. |
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| The link between atomism and discrete motion goes back at least to Aristotle and is admitted by some atomists, but the full significance of that admission has been neglected. |
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| Buddhist atomism and the Jaina school continued the atomic tradition. |
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