Associations to the word «Atomism»
Noun
- Materialism
- Descartes
- Alchemy
- Atom
- Aristotle
- Bertrand
- Galileo
- Astrology
- Boyle
- Cosmology
- Skepticism
- Void
- Philosophy
- Idealism
- Humanism
- Newton
- Plurality
- Dalton
- Philosopher
- Russell
- Orthodoxy
- Physic
- Aquinas
- Contingency
- Theory
- Astronomy
- Meteor
- Mach
- Theology
- Chemistry
- Augustine
- Antoine
- Realism
- Analogy
- Mechanics
- Enlightenment
- Minimum
- Pierre
- Doctrine
- Particle
- Isaac
- Logic
- Comet
- Physics
- Ancient
- Rejection
- Plato
- Locke
- Thinker
- Bce
- Ethics
- Argument
- Concept
- Bacon
- Hypothesis
- Unity
- Proposition
- Principle
- Substance
- Conception
- Georg
- Vacuum
- Thesis
- Anatomy
- Revival
- Existence
- Providence
- Consciousness
- Johann
- Geometry
Adjective
Wiktionary
ATOMISM, noun. (philosophy) The ancient Greek theory that all matter is composed of very small indestructible and indivisible particles.
ATOMISM, noun. (philosophy) The doctrine that society arises from individuals and that larger structures are unimportant.
Dictionary definition
ATOMISM, noun. (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association.
ATOMISM, noun. (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.