单词	atomism
释义	atomism /ˈatəmɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] chiefly Philosophy A theoretical approach that regards something as interpretable through analysis into distinct, separable, and independent elementary components. The opposite of holism.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.... The true philosophy of Cudworth's intellectual system combines mechanistic atomism with Platonic metaphysics. Gassendi, for example, embarked on a wholehearted revival and modification of Epicurean atomism, which had a considerable impact on natural philosophy. Derivatives atomist /ˈatəmɪst / noun ... 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. Not all of the mechanical philosophers were mechanical atomists. It will be observed that in this respect the early atomists were far more scientific than Epicurus and even than Aristotle. atomistic /atəˈmɪstɪk / adjective ... Modern physics has ceased to be atomistic in the full sense that the Greek atomists intended. They were nevertheless moderns in natural philosophy who accepted post-Galilean science, and propounded an atomistic theory of matter. The dissolution of the feudal estates by the Revolution produced a purely atomistic society, characterized by the assertion of individual property right.
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