Atomism (from Ancient Greek ἄτομον (atomon) ' uncuttable, indivisible ') [1] [2] [3] is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is composed of fundamental indivisible …

Atomism, any doctrine that explains complex phenomena in terms of aggregates of fixed particles or units. This philosophy has found its most successful application in natural science: …

Jun 30, 2005 · Atomism in the form in which it first emerged in Ancient Greece was a metaphysical thesis, purporting to establish claims about the ultimate nature of material reality …

Aug 23, 2005 · Scholarly uses of the term ‘atomism’ range over mereological theories in widely different contexts (Zilioli 2021); not all possible senses of the term are discussed here.

Atomism in the strict sense is not merely one of the historical forms of atomism, one of the many possible scientific attempts at explaining certain physical phenomena; it is, first of all, a …

atomism, Philosophical doctrine that material objects are aggregates of simpler parts known as atoms. Atomism in the strict sense is characterized by three points: the atoms are absolutely …

May 29, 2018 · ATOMISM, theory that physical bodies consist ultimately of minute, irreducible, and homogeneous particles called atoms (Greek atomos/atomon = indivisible). In medieval …