ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY

Definition: ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY

ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY

1. A system which, assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY

Domain	Definition
Literature	Atomic Philosophy The hypothesis of Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus, that the world is composed of a congeries of atoms, or particles of matter so minute as to be incapable of further diminution. Of course it is quite impossible even to think of a portion of matter which has not an upper and under side, with some breadth and thickness. "According to Democritus, the expounder of the Atomic Theory of matter, images composed of the finest atoms floated from the object to the mind." - McCosh: Psychological Cognitive Powers , p. 23. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: ATOMIC PHILOSOPHY

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	Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-i-i-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: ophthalmoscopy.
	-3 letters: homosociality.
	-5 letters: homoplastic, hypoplastic, philosophic, photomosaic, psilophytic.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-i-i-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-s-t-y"
	+3 letters: polychromatophilias.
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