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Definition of Atomists
1. atomist [n] - See also: atomist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atomists
Literary usage of Atomists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"CHAPTER V THE atomists The atomists represent the last phase of Ionian speculation
concerning nature. They accept the dualistic ideas which characterize the ..."
2. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"Aristotle may justly censure the atomists for not having duly sought the cause
of motion,1 it is untrue to say that they derived motion from chance.2 Motion ..."
3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"One recurs again with satisfaction to the simplicity, yet competent fulness, of
Schwegler. IX. The atomists. MR. LEWES holds Hegel to regard ..."
4. The Development of Greek Philosophy by Robert Adamson (1908)
"CHAPTER VII THE atomists ALONG with Empedocles I think we may take the Atomist
doctrine: even though in so doing we have to some extent to transgress the ..."