Atomist

Yet in keeping with his epistemological modesty, Newton allows the possibility, mentioned earlier, that the atomist presumption may turn out to be incorrect: “If it were established by even a single experiment that in the breaking of a hard and solid body, any undivided particle underwent division, we should conclude by the force of this third rule not only that divided parts are separable but also that undivided parts can be divided indefinitely.” ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

McCann, for example, reads Locke as defending the atomist version of the corpuscular philosophy over its Cartesian competitor by providing an epistemology for it. ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

It presents a logical atomist picture of reality and language... ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

Although Rule 3 of the Principia allows the possibility that the least parts of matter could turn out to be divisible, his atomist sympathies are evident throughout his writings. ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

The idea makes an early appearance in the mathematics of the Greek atomist philosopher Democritus c. ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)

I'm puzzled where Arnold gets the idea that I'm an "atomist." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since Locke's sympathies are clearly with the atomist version, the term ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

In a sense that is consistent with empiricism, Obama is an atomist (metonymist) and an organicist (synecdochean). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Epicurus is an atomist, and in accordance with his atomism he takes the soul, like everything else that there is except for the void, to be ultimately composed of atoms. ❋ Lorenz, Hendrik (2009)

Although Anaxagoras is not considered an atomist, he taught something that was amazingly prescient. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Plenist and atomist versions of the corpuscular hypothesis may be distinguished. ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

Eventually, he became an atomist, believing the world to be built from tiny particles. ❋ Owen Gingerich (2008)

Boltzmann, another famous atomist, hit upon the same basic scenario. ❋ Sean (2008)

Thus for Aristotle there was no problem of life, although there was a problem for an atomist view of nature that seemed inconsistent with biological phenomena (Rosen 1991). ❋ Weber, Bruce (2008)

Descartes opened a section in his notebook entitled “Democritica” (10: 8), in honor of the ancient atomist Democritus. ❋ Hatfield, Gary (2008)

In Physics, Newton and Einstein built on atomist theory, giving it a solid foundation through mathematics. ❋ Frank Wilson (2007)

Open your eyes and smell the universalist, naturalist, atomist heresy, Smear Reporters! ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Robinson, Howard (2007)

Although these doctrines are recognizably atomist in spirit, the term ❋ Proops, Ian (2007)