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Atomism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Atomism was devised by Leucippus and his student Democritus. Democritus was born about 460 B.C., which makes him about 40 years younger than Anaxagoras, Atomism is the final, and most successful, attempt to rescue the reality of the physical world from the fatal effects of Eleatic logic by means of a pluralistic theory.
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Atomism in the form in which it first emerged in Ancient Greece was a metaphysical thesis, purporting to establish claims about the ultimate nature of material reality by philosophical argument. From the nineteenth century onwards, when serious versions of scientific atomism first emerged,
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Since the Greek adjective atomos means, literally, ‘uncuttable,’ the history of ancient atomism is not only the history of a theory about the nature of matter, Leucippus (5th c. BCE) is the earliest figure whose commitment to atomism is well attested. He is usually credited with inventing atomism.
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Leucippus was the founder of Atomism. We know next to nothing about his life, and his book appears to have been incorporated in the collected works of Democritus.
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Atomism [a privative and temnein to cut, i.e. indivisible] is the system of those who hold that all bodies are composed of minute, indivisible particles of matter called atoms. Atomism as a philosophy originated with Leucippus. Democritus (b. 460 B.C.), his disciple, generally considered the father of atomism,
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"Abstract atomism" is another name for "Buddhist atomism". Since 1999 I have been developing an atomic theory. When I used the word “atom” in the above sentences I am not referring to the atoms that scientists study, but rather I am addressing the philosophy of atomism.
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Atomism is the most influential of the philosophies of nature to be developed prior to the time of Socrates (d. In the seventeenth century (i.e., before the development of what can be recognized as modern chemistry), something like ancient atomism was revived in the philosophy of Pierre Gassendi.
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In the broadest sense the term Atomism refers to any doctrine that explains complex phenomena in terms of aggregates of fixed particles or units. Atomism in the strict sense is characterized by three points: the atoms are absolutely indivisible, qualitatively identical (i.e., distinct only in shape, size, and motion),
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