This doctrine which I call atomistic and which appears to be anti-historical, reveals from under a concealing cloak a strongly materialistic nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference

Here, Norton (2001) objects to an "atomistic" bias of western culture towards objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biodiversity] Reference

The danger is therefore not application of technology for the objective but "atomistic" nature of "man".    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

Pierre Gassendi's revived atomistic sensationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference

In the atomistic philosophy of Democritus the notion of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Mere atomistic empiricism, the unconnected sensation or enumeration of the parts of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ORGANICISM] Reference

Now, of course, not all markets conform to a model of perfect, atomistic competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Kelly: Oil Execs to Congress: I Drink Your Milkshake] Reference

The question whether QFT is an atomistic theory hinges on the understanding of atomism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Field Theory] Reference

His readers evidently agreed with him, and the atomistic, mechanical view advanced by default.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The paramount aim of the atomistic definition of soul, as of all Epicurean physics, was ethical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

This question was ultimately connected with the problem of understanding the atomistic continuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic] Reference

From this we can see that classical mechanics must lead us to an atomistic construction of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of My Later Years]

He does not replace a dynamic by an atomistic theory, or switch from active monads to inert matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference

In his methodological pronouncements he has had not yet freed himself from those atomistic assumptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Stuart Mill] Reference

Social identities are not forced onto atomistic individuals who then necessarily become alien to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism] Reference

The Principia Mathematica of 1687, though not an atomistic work, per se, was linked to Newton's atomic views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

As regards the atomistic prefigura - tion of the man-machine, it will suffice to summarize the Lucretian version.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The observations of electricity in a vacuum, therefore, yield no confirmation whatsoever of the atomistic view of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] 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

Althusen down to Karl Marx, to Wilson and to Lenin is a social and state concept which I shall call mechanical or atomistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference

But what in - terests us here is that behind Beeckman's physics was an atomistic view of nature that was essentially mechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Political philosophies that celebrate atomistic individualism need to be re-read in the light cast by the crematoria of Auschwitz.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 10, 1941, In Jedwabne] Reference

To induce the ataraxia, or peace of mind, of the sage, one atomistic theory, provided it was credible, was obviously as good as another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Rawls's vision of global order clearly rejects a world of atomistic sovereign states with the traditional powers of absolute sovereignty.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Government] Reference

In order to save itself from becoming hopelessly lost in this line of thought (atomistic), science proceeded first in the following manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of My Later Years]

In cases where we have only scattered reports and secondhand information, it is difficult to know which views should be counted as atomistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Atomism] Reference

How could Newton, answering Barrow's call for certainty in science, like - wise adhere to an admittedly unconfirmable atomistic conception of nature?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In the process that led to this view of nature, the development of the atomistic conceptions into an experimental scientific theory played an important role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Once started on this downward grade of logical deductions it was inevitable that this atomistic theory of state and society should pass on to a more advanced position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference

It is replaced by an individualizing, atomistic, subjective realism that refuses to recognize an objective order of things: it is even solipsism in the sense of Pater or.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALISM IN LITERATURE] Reference

Where his father's argument was social atomistic in its assumptions, that of the younger Mill built on an awareness of the existence and significance of social relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Stuart Mill] Reference

Fascism replaces therefore the old atomistic and mechanical state theory which was at the basis of the liberal and democratic doctrines with an organic and historic concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference

It can be adapted to atomistic (Armstrong) and subatomistic views, and to views on which sentences (of the language of thought) are the primary bearers of truth and falsehood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence Theory of Truth] Reference

The atomistic way of thinking of the cause and ground of the perceived world is easiest for us to accept since it fits in well with the early forms of atomism in modern physics.    From Wordnik.com.  [APPEARANCE AND REALITY] Reference

This was, of course, a reason, but there were nevertheless enough physical aspects in the atomistic doctrines which could function as the beginning of a fruitful physical theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference