atomism

• In seventeenth-century France, for instance, the punishment for believing in atomism was the death penalty. —  Omni: January 1994
• It would seem they did not because the distinction derives from atomism, which Aristotle rejected as self-contradictory. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
• There is, for example, in his book a discussion of proper names which concludes (page 85): ‘The doctrine of proper names was an important part of the view of language which was the major cause of disaster to logical atomism, and it must not be thought to be of minor importance.’ In my Human Knowledge I have discussed proper names at considerable length and in a number of passages. —  My Philosophical Development
• Democritus contended that a basic and fundamental form of consciousness was a quality of all matter - what they called 'atomism.' —  Sentient Developments
• The ksana atomism is associated with the Sautrântika milieu, the latest of the early Buddhist sects, which emerged in opposition to their parent sect, the Sarvâstivâdin, about 150 BCE (Bareau 1955: 34, 155). —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage

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