Sentences with phrase «irreducible bits»

Whereas when Whitehead coined the phrase, «Fallacy of misplaced concreteness» (SMW 58), he was referring to the irreducible bits of matter present in the Newtonian mechanistic theory of nature, when applied to social systems it acquires added significance.

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.