Descartes rejects any form of atomism, which is the view that there exists a smallest indivisible particle of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Physics] Reference

With it has come the "atomism" and "one-dimensionality" that leftist critics have always charged against the capitalist system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack the System] Reference

"atomism" and, concomitantly, dearth of higher virtues in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

Antidote Against Atheism which criticized Epicurean atomism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Charleton set about to defend atomism cleverly and effectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The latter wished to exorcise from atomism the taint of atheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

It was in this manner that Gassendi's atomism began to influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Behind Hariot's physical researches lay the hypothesis of atomism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

First there were the “empirics,” who deeply suspected atomism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Yet how was this “progressive” character of atomism to be affirmed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

As a rule, how - ever, the more “liberal” forms of atomism accept only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The renovation of atomism by the modification of the hypothetical physics was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Democritus 'atomism is to examine the problems for which he sought a solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Sciences is the work in which he gave his most com - plete rendering of his atomism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Page 136, Volume 1 atomism was virtually an updated, Christianized ver - sion of Epicurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

How was atomism (or Cartesian corpuscularianism) to be fitted into scientific explanation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

How could atomism, with its pagan, atheistic origins and implications become ac - ceptable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Does this mean that the revival of atomism in the strict sense did not have any real effect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Other forms of Greek atomism differ from the atom - ism of Democritus mainly in three points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He was opposed to atomism, but not because it assumed that matter consists of minimal constituents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Just as in the case of atomism, they seemed to prove the validity of the preconceived idea of the current.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

What atomism needed for its development was, above all, the connection with observable chemical phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

This holds true also of other forms of atomism, which can be distinguished from atomism in the strict sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In order for atomism to be acceptable as a scientific doctrine, it first had to be - come acceptable theologically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In addition to its own intrinsic difficulties, therefore, atomism had to bear the burden of having notorious friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But there is a significant gulf between the atomism of the former group and the corpuscular philosophies of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

This was a question which had to be an - swered by the promoters of atomism in the course of the scientific revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Within this general atomistic conception a distinc - tion can be made between atomism in the strict sense, and other forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For Bruno, atomism was the metaphysical principle on the basis of which the underlying unity of all nature could be demonstrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Because of its pagan, atheistic origins, atomism had always been viewed with suspicion, but now, its trou - bles were compounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In the very First Day, Galileo was concerned with a discussion of cohesion, and it is in this discussion that his atomism took shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, was designed to an - swer the attacks on atomism and to purify it in the eyes of believing Christians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Boyle was an advocate of corpuscularism, a form of atomism that was slowly displacing Aristotelian and Paracelsian views of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyle, Robert] Reference

Galileo's atomism is related to the theories of Democ - ritus and Hero of Alexandria, but is far more subtle and far more mathematical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In short, atomism was considered by its adherents over - optimistically as more practical and more “realistic” than its alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Finally, the most general characteristic which distinguishes Democritus 'atomism from other doctrines is probably its conception of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference