Atomicism

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(philosophy) Atomism..

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1. (philosophy) Atomism.
2. The view that a system as is composed of separable, independent, self-contained units that can be examined and manipulated individually.

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And thus, in this first chapter, have we not only quite disarmed atheism of atomicism, or shewed that the latter, (rightly understood) affordeth no manner of shelter or protection to the former; but also made it manifest, that it is the greatest bulwark and defence against the same; which is a thing afterwards further insisted on.

A consciousness which has got rid of the thought of absolute being would become a prey to endless atomicism and dissolution .

Quite on the contrary, if we insist on the particle "allegory" we must grant that the so-called "particles" have strictly no individuality. In the end, the picture we get is closer to Plotinism than to philosophical atomicism!

In the history of knowledge, atomicism has been the moving force behind the vast majority of scientific breakthroughs, especially in physics and mechanics.

But Cassirer may help us to realize that it is not geneticism alone that is being surpassed: a certain "atomicism” —i.e., the isolation of the single parts of a system — is also under general attack.

The third pair of presuppositions concerns methodology: methodological individualism or atomicism versus holism or organicism.

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