Crossword-Solution: ATOMISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atomism | n. | The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ATOMISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belief that all things are made of particles | 1 answer |
| DOCTRINE that the world is made up of small, indivisible elements | 1 answer |
| Leucippus's theory | 1 answer |
| Lucretius's theory | 1 answer |
| Modern theory of the universe. | 1 answer |
| Particle-based philosophy | 1 answer |
| Philosophical theory first advanced by Leucippus and Democritus | 1 answer |
| THEORY that all matter consists of minute indivisible particles | 1 answer |
| Theory on makeup of universe. | 1 answer |
| Theory that answers the question "What's the matter?"? | 1 answer |
| ancient philosophical theory | 1 answer |
| DEMOCRITUS | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ATOMISM (5)
One must, however, go still further, and also declare war, relentless war to the knife, against the "atomistic requirements" which still lead a dangerous after-life in places where no one suspects them, like the more celebrated "metaphysical requirements": one must also above all give the finishing stroke to that other and more portentous atomism which Christianity has taught best and longest, the SOUL-ATOMISM.
Just as in the case of atomism, they seemed to prove the validity of the preconceived idea of the current.
However, the grammar schools did not become the breeding grounds for humanist ideas because the sovereigns were faced with religious atomism and political unrest, so used the grammar schools to maintain public order and achieve political and religious conformity.
This kind of temper is very dangerous among us, for it flatters all the worst instincts of men--indiscipline, irreverence, selfish individualism--and it ends in social atomism.
Aubrey Moore, writing in 1889, connected the Catholic revival with the abandonment of atomism in natural philosophy and of Baconian metaphysics.
Quotes with ATOMISM (3)
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowled…
Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Steril…
The history of atomism is one of reductionism — the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1950–2015).