atomism

The theologians' (mutakallimun) rejection of Aristotle's notion of the infinite and of his theory of the eternity of the world was backed by a peculiar form of atomism developed in early kalam (not to be confused with Democritus' or the Epicureans' atomism).

He argues that seeing Searle's work as an advancement of an ideal type (in the Weberian sense) allows Searle to avoid criticisms that his formula is no more than a form of institutional atomism. However, as an ideal type, Searle's constitutive formula both highlights and suppresses aspects of institutional reality and thus can only serve as one instrument for attending inquiry among other ideal types, such as the Aristotelian conception of the phronimos.

Mariano Artigas, Rafael Martinez and William Shea suggest the possibility that the Inquisition might also have been interested in Galileo's controversial work on atomism. Questions regarding the atomic structure of nature had serious implications for the transubstantiation of the Eucharist.

Some Ontological Consequences of Atomism, TRAVIS DUMSDAY

They held matter to be fundamentally infused with vital and occult powers, and their atomism owed much more to the decidedly non-Epicurean tradition of late scholastic and Renaissance doctrines of minima naturalia, where the particles were not properly atomic but simply the smallest particles capable of containing the substantial form in question and where the principles of interaction were not mechanical.

Webb critiques the global liberal culture and outlines four "ethoses"--character ideals or ways of life that he labels demoticism, perfectionism, atomism, and virtuocracy.

The chapter articulates a particularly incisive treatment of hylemorphism and atomism, and it includes a discussion of antireductionism in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Weber's argument is that it is only through appreciating this radical innovation that it becomes possible to understand why Whitehead embraced a form of atomism of 'actual occasions' to characterize this creative advance, and shows how Whitehead gave a place to subjective, objective and relative time, and revealed the inter-relationship between creative becoming associated with subjective experience, objects and the extensive continuum.

Ablondi places Cordemoy within seventeenth-century thought and breaks down his attachment to atomism, occasionalism and Cartesianism in turn, explaining Cordemoy's approach and methods as well as his results.

Although Bacon's matter theory has some elements in common with classical atomism, it differs significantly by invoking "various mechanical qualities such as elasticity and pressure in a basic explanatory role," and also draws on chemical/alchemical theory (140).