Atomism Definition

ătə-mĭzəm
noun
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.
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A theory that the universe is made up of tiny, simple, indivisible particles that cannot be destroyed.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage

(philosophy) The ancient Greek theory that all matter is composed of very small indestructible and indivisible particles.

Wiktionary

(philosophy) The doctrine that society arises from individuals and that larger structures are unimportant.

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Origin of Atomism

  • atom +‎ -ism

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Atomism Sentence Examples

  • Between Leucippus and Democritus there is an interval of at least forty years; accordingly, while the beginnings of Atomism are closely connected with the doctrines of the Eleatics, the system as developed by Democritus is conditioned by the sophistical views of his time, especially those of Protagoras.

  • Libertarianism seems to dissolve to an unworldly atomism, and seems far too callous about real human pain.

  • In the theory of Atomism taught by Leucippus and Democritus we have the basis of the modern mechanical conceptions of cosmic evolution.

  • Metrodorus is especially interesting as the teacher of Anaxarchus, the friend of Pyrrho, and, therefore, as the connecting link between atomism proper and the later scepticism.

  • In Hume's theory of knowledge we have the final expression of what may be called psychological individualism or atomism, while his ethics and doctrine of religion are but the logical consequences of this theory.

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