Meaning of atomicism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Atomism.
   uncountable
2. The view that a system as is composed of separable, independent, self-contained units that can be examined and manipulated individually.
   uncountable

Examples

“And thus, in this first chapter, have⟳ we not only quite disarmed atheism of atomicism, or shewed that the latter, (rightly understood) affordeth no manner of shelter⟳ or protection to the former; but also made it manifest, that it is the greatest bulwark and defence against the same; which is a thing afterwards further insisted on.”

“A consciousness which has got rid⟳ of the thought of absolute being would become⟳ a prey to endless atomicism and dissolution .”

“Quite on the contrary, if we insist on the particle "allegory" we must grant that the so-called "particles" have⟳ strictly no individuality. In the end⟳, the picture we get⟳ is closer to Plotinism than to philosophical atomicism!”

“In the history of knowledge, atomicism has been the moving force⟳ behind the vast majority of scientific breakthroughs, especially in physics and mechanics.”

“But Cassirer may help⟳ us to realize⟳ that it is not geneticism alone that is being surpassed: a certain "atomicism” —i.e., the isolation of the single parts of a system — is also under general attack.”

“The third pair of presuppositions concerns methodology: methodological individualism or atomicism versus holism or organicism.”

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