Cavendish
rejected atomism
in 1655 because it might level the hierarchical order in which she believed; it could also threaten political stability.
The module term will end with a brief look at the reasons for the collapse of
logical atomism.
The key assumption of dalton's
chemical atomism
is that chemical elements are composed of ' ultimate particles ' or atoms.
Atomism developed
by mechanical philosophers in the seventeenth century shared that characteristic.
These moves certainly helped to give precise content to the fundamental tenets of
mechanical atomism
that they had previously lacked.
Social atomism
is doctrine rooted in morality of the weak.
Newtonian atomism
was not fruitful as far as eighteenth-century experimental science is concerned.
Eidetic atomism
is thus a prime source of the philosophical " hypotheses " hume aims to eliminate.
Scientific atomism
viewed the world as the precise and predictable concourse of atoms ( or more basic particles ) in space and time.
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