atomism in a sentence
Examples
- The materialist atomism proposed by Leucippus was traditional physics until the nature of atoms was discovered in the 20th century.
- Anthony Kenny provides a useful analogy for understanding Wittgenstein's logical atomism : a slightly modified game of chess.
- Parallels may be drawn to Buddhism, which similarly emphasizes a lack of divine interference and aspects of its atomism.
- Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of traditional Roman deities.
- Vaisheshika school is known for its insights in naturalism, and it is a form of atomism in natural philosophy.
- Gross reductionism & mdash; atomism, for example & mdash; consists of reducing a whole to its parts.
- They had republics, democracies, atomism, evolution, and everything else we have except electricity and nuclear physics.
- A staunch believer in the Greek idea of atomism, Kepler wondered how water particles stacked themselves to form symmetrical snowflakes.
- Other traditions in Islam rejected the atomism of the Asharites and expounded on many Greek texts, especially those of Aristotle.
- The second phase of Buddhist atomism, which flourished in the 7th century CE, was very different from the first.