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atomistic, a.|ætəˈmɪstɪk| [f. prec. + -ic.] 1. a. Of or pertaining to atomists or atomism.
1809Coleridge Friend I. 121 It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xi. 443 The atomistic doctrine of the existence of a vacuum. b. Of or pertaining to logical atomism. See atomism 1 b.
1918B. Russell in Monist 496 The logic which I shall advocate is atomistic, as opposed to the monistic logic of the people who..follow Hegel. When I say that my logic is atomistic, I mean that I share the common-sense belief that there are many separate things. 2. Consisting of separate atoms.
1874Sayce Comp. Philol. vi. 214 Instead of starting with atomistic individuals, we must start with..the community. 1875D. Simon Dorner's Pers. Christ i. II. 123 To conceive the world..as an atomistic multiplicity without unity. 3. Of or pertaining to psychological atomism. See atomism 3.
1883Encycl. Brit. XX. 60/2 Such a statement is liable to all the objections already urged against what we may call atomistic psychology. a1910W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) iv. 87 To such an atomistic plurality the associationists reduce our mental life. 1940R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) ii. 38 An atomistic psychology attempts to explain any total activity by analysing it into its elements. |