Atomism A highly reductive theory of the structure of the world, in which all things are made of an infinite number of randomly moving indivisible cells (corpuscles). This is also known as mechanical philosophy, and was a

period because a version of atomism came to replace Aristotelian conceptions of matter . In Aristotle's theory, matter and form were correlative, with form being the active principle and matter being the passive. So the soul, as one type of

and an ontology of atomism , completed the case for the mechanistic world view by the nineteenth century. Related Topics: Physics Contributed by: Robert Russell - CTNS Search for

hylomorphism to Galilean atomism . Following the success of Newtonian mechanics, atomism was extended to chemistry. In the nineteenth century, attempts were made to extend atomism to biology and, in our century, to the human sphere, including

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of events in both classical atomism and relativity theory . It points to a more holistic view of the quantum world . Indeed Bohm himself stressed the holistic aspect of quantum theory in his later years, after his conversion from Marxism to

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