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  • Some resembled the Greek "Atomists" in their theory, [47] and others fought for the authority, and even the supreme divinity, of the Vedas. [

    Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

  • The Atomists, who are sometimes regarded as the Materialists of Plato, denied the reality of sensation.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • Atomists, on the other hand, held that there were indivisible or atomic particles.

    John Locke Uzgalis, William 2007

  • Atomists or familists were a Puritanical sect who appeared about 1575, founded by Henry

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Again, the Eleatics may be regarded as developing in one direction into the Megarian school, in the other into the Atomists, but there is no necessary connexion between them.

    The Sophist 2006

  • But the Atomists were not Materialists in the grosser sense of the term, nor were they incapable of reasoning; and Plato would hardly have described a great genius like Democritus in the disdainful terms which he uses of the

    The Sophist 2006

  • The Atomists too made the world, if not out of geometrical figures, at least out of different forms of atoms, and these atoms resembled the triangles of Plato in being too small to be visible.

    Timaeus 2006

  • His silence respecting the Atomists might lead us to suppose that here we have a trace of them.

    The Sophist 2006

  • Atomists in attributing the greater differences of kinds to the figures of the elements and their movements into and out of one another.

    Timaeus 2006

  • Nor must we forget the uncertainty of chronology; — if, as Aristotle says, there were Atomists before

    The Sophist 2006

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