(1) The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics.(2) A study of the path from philosophical atomism to contemporary scientific atomism helps to shed light on the nature of philosophy and science and the relationship between the two.(3) Philip Pettit makes a useful distinction between two pairs of concepts: individualism and collectivism, and atomism and holism.(4) One of the great achievements of the scientific imagination, the Epicurean cosmos is based on three fundamental principles: materialism, mechanism, and atomism .(5) The reason that his work on chemical atomism, if not physical atomism , was so widely accepted was that it worked to explain the relationships that had been noted and tested by the chemists of the latter part of the 1700s.(6) Their atheism was based on a theory of atomism , which they were the first to propose.(7) Gassendi, for example, embarked on a wholehearted revival and modification of Epicurean atomism , which had a considerable impact on natural philosophy.(8) But whereas the Greek atomists had to guess and imagine, John Dalton, a Quaker and a chemist, used modern scientific reasoning.(9) Others had held that the ultimate parts of ordinary things were substances (Aristotle is thinking of the ancient atomists , whose basic entities were microscopical corpuscles).(10) I used any appropriate method in as accurate a way as possible to unite holistic analysis, which is characteristic of the positivist school of sociology, and atomistic analysis, characteristic of the interpretive sociologies.(11) Although, unlike most of his fashionable contemporaries and immediate successors, Descartes was not an atomist , he was, like the others, a mechanist about the properties of matter.(12) The ancient atomists , like Leucippus and Democritus and Epicuris, believed that the world was made out of atoms.(13) Both of these ideas have an atomistic view of humans - we're all individuals, and we develop our lives in a solitary way.(14) Not all of the mechanical philosophers were mechanical atomists .(15) By positing indivisible bodies, the atomists were also thought to be answering Zeno's paradoxes about the impossibility of motion.(16) For testers, the problem has been one of reconciling the relative importance of the holistic and atomistic elements in a syllabus.
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