ATOMISTS – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
atomist
n.
atomic expert
Atomism
Atomism (from
Greek ,
atomon, i.e. "uncuttable", "indivisible") is a
natural philosophy that developed in several ancient traditions. The atomists theorized that nature consists of two fundamental principles:
atom and
void. Unlike their modern scientific namesake in
atomic theory, philosophical atoms come in an infinite variety of shapes and sizes, each indestructible, immutable and surrounded by a void where they collide with the others or hook together forming a cluster. Clusters of different shapes, arrangements, and positions give rise to the various macroscopic substances in the world.
Atomists
Atomists Certain ancient Greek philosophers, especially of the school of Leucippus and Deomcritus, who taught that all things arose from atoms (atomoi) and a vacuum (kenon). By atoms Democritus meant "indivisible particles of substance containing in themselves the potentialities of all possible future development, self-moved, self-driven . . . spiritual indivisible entities, the ultimates of being, self-conscious, spiritual monads.
"Nor by his word kenon, or void, did he mean an utter emptiness, as we misconstrue that word. He meant the vast expanses of the spatial deeps, Space, in fact, which this infinite host of monads filled" (MIE 34-5). The atomists became more materialistic as time passed. The equivalent Hindu atomist schools are the Nyaya and Vaiseshika.
ATOMISTS
ATOMISTI
atomist
s.
atomist, atomisk ekspert
