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Atomist

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at·om·ism  (t-mzm)
n. Philosophy
1. The ancient theory of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, according to which simple, minute, indivisible, and indestructible particles are the basic components of the entire universe.
2. A theory according to which social institutions, values, and processes arise solely from the acts and interests of individuals, who thus constitute the only true subject of analysis.
atom·ist n.


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Clearly the atomist view of the body is less physical than geometrical or conceptual, and hence more abstract than concrete in contrast to the hylomorphist view, in which matter, as the underlying extrabodily substrate, has substantial, if incorporeal, being.
Atomism versus hylomorphism in the kalam of al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: ... by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
The complement of this view is the modern emphasis on the atomist "individual" possessed of a phalanx of rights.
The modern moral sense by Henry, Michael D. / Modern Age
I am an atomist," Tichy declares, meaning that his work is concerned with dissolving the apparent solidity of the perceived world.
Miroslav Tichy: Kunsthaus Zurich by Schwabsky, Barry / Artforum International
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