Sentences with word «atomism»

One became the philosophy of organism admitting both internal and external relations as a consequence of the dominance of procedure, while the other became a logical atomism of purely external relations as a consequence of the content of Principia Mathematica (cf. ILM 420 and UW 152f.).

This type of reflection led to the dominance of atomism in modern thought.

Like many others, I do see such a «shift,» arising Out of his adoption of temporal atomism.

Most modern thought about the physical world has assumed something like the metaphysics of Greek atomism, namely, that there are irreducible bits of matter that change only in relative position.

Or put in other terms, is the current methodological ideal of scientific atomism sufficiently broad to explain life and mind as we experience them?

I agree in principle with Hutchens, Kleist, and Bischoff that the Achilles» heel of evangelicalism has been its ecclesiology» or more precisely its «ecclesial atomism,» in Ephraim Radner's phrase.

So devotees of scientific atomism conclude to the ontological homogeneity of evolutionary phenomena.

The advantage over atomism and organicism of a philosophy stressing modes of order is that any order, which I define as things in some definite relationship, rests on things in relations.

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

Classical atomism was generated by an intersection of formal logic, ordinary sense experience, and technology.

9Just as Whitehead's organic cosmology is a refutation of Newtonian material atomism with respect to the problem of «simple location,» so in a correlative fashion his organic sociology stands in sharp contrast to the modern contractual theory of civil society, which conceives of individuals as autonomous existents externally related only by agreement.

This view of human beings gained some of its credibility from a physical science based on atomism.

The reductionist principle of atomism leads to the doctrine of mechanism — that the universe and all entities in the universe are machines.

What constituted a real difficulty for his contemporaries and thinkers of the following generations was that Descartes» identification of the physical and the mathematical made material atomism impossible.

Philosophy bristles with theories of «wholes» and «parts,» theories which reach from extreme atomisms (in which there are only parts, and wholes are at best mere aggregates) to extreme monisms (in which putative parts lose their identities to the whole).

Does not a philosophy like Plato's or Aristotle's give «greater» glory to God than the dreary atomism of Democritus or Lucretius?

A non-material account of empowerment might therefore consider the increased democratisation of societal institutions, the creation of legal protection for bargaining positions (loosely construed), and the development of a conception of individual rights that restores a communal, relational component that has lately been lost to neoliberal atomism.

And finally it was Einstein's theory of Brownian motion that nailed atomism.

Before the lectures were published, however, Whitehead discovered temporal atomism and inserted some fresh material.

P.S. Ancient Greek atomism, i.e.» Atoms are indestructible and immutable and there are an infinite variety of shapes and sizes.»

Weedon, William S., «The Dialectic of Atomism,» World Perspectives in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Presented to Professor Datta by the Bihar Darshan Parishad, 30, ed.

After the discovery of temporal atomism, however, Whitehead was primarily concerned with those issues and problems his own peculiar approach caused him.

I can see that there are roots of this atomism in the biblical tradition, but I am also convinced that they do not dominate it.

This whole approach of reifying separate disciplines that are then allowed to impinge on each other only externally is but one expression of the atomism from which Christian faith should set us free.

The atomism of the autonomous self thus gives way to a sound sense of the community of being and the responsibility, as well as the opportunity, of being fulfilled within such a creative nexus.

In the light of such remarks Lawrence and others may be forgiven for supposing that Whitehead's panpsychism takes the form of some kind of «double aspect» atomism.

«Logical Atomism» in Contemporary British Philosophy.

On the theoretical side, we find that in a world of this kind, there is no more chance of our discovering objective theories than there was in the world of atomism.

This line of thought was pursued by Anaxagoras at about the time Democritus was working out his atomism.

Other communities value latitude without being disturbed by the vagueness and atomism that may result from an exaggerated breadth.