Atomism

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Atomism.

Before explaining how the theory of atoms arose, let me explain what it means.

Atomism implies, first of all, that matter, or the substance of which bodies are composed, while it occupies space and is therefore extended, is not, like pure space, continuous, but discrete.

That is, it consists of perfectly distinct and separate parts moving about in void space, solid, indivisible, impenetrable, differing from one another only in size and shape, capable of being united together in mechanical groups, but only communicating with one another by external contact and collision.

In the next place, the atoms are so small as to lie beyond the reach of our senses; but assuming space to be infinitely extended, they are infinite in number; for otherwise the universe would in the course of infinite ages have disappeared by dissipation into the surrounding void.

And he seems to have been the first to point out the distinction, since grown so familiar, between the two great sources of knowledge, sense, which gives us the appearances, and understanding, which gives us the reality of things.

He owed it to the atomic theory.

As it is, the essays alone remain to show what great things he might have done by limiting himself to the subjects with which they deal.

The famous logical and physical treatises, the Novum Organum and the De Augmentis, notwithstanding their wealth and splendor of language, are to us at the present day less living than the fragments of early Greek thought, than most of Plato, than much of Aristotle, than Atomism as expounded by Lucretius.

Macaulay rests his claim of the highest place among philosophers for Bacon, not on his inductive theory, to which the historian rightly denies any novelty, but on the new purpose and direction that the search for knowledge is assumed to have received from his teaching.

On this view, the whole of modern science has been created by the desire to convert nature into an instrument for the satisfaction of human wants, an ambition dating from the publication of the Novum Organum.

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Atomism Before explaining how the theory of atoms arose, let me explain what it means.

Atomism implies, first of all, that matter, or the substance of which bodies are composed, while it occupies space and is therefore extended, is not like pure space continuous but discrete.

That is, it consists of perfectly distinct and separate parts moving about in void space, solid, indivisible, impenetrable, differing from one another only in size and shape, capable of being united together in mechanical groups, but only communicating with one another by external contact and collision.

In the next place, the atoms are so small as to lie beyond the reach of our senses, but assuming space to be infinitely extended, they are infinite in number.

His image may still be seen on the coins of his native place, Clazomeni, probably copied from a statue erected there in his honor.

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Qualitative Atomism Democritus observed with truth that the astronomical heresies which brought Anaxagoras into such trouble were not new.

Unlike the master, he declared, that the eternal reality was without a bound identifying it as would seem with infinite space and while denying movement or multiplicity to absolute being he allows them at least a place in thought as illusions of sense such an enlargement of view meant much how much will be apparent when we come to study the grandest result of early greek thought the atomic theory 8.

ATOMISM Before explaining how the theory of atoms arose, let me explain what it means.

Atomism implies, first of all, that matter or the substance of which bodies are composed, while it occupies space and is therefore extended, is not like pure space continuous but discrete.

that is it consists of perfectly distinct and separate parts moving about in void space solid indivisible impenetrable differing from one another only in size and shape capable of being united together in mechanical groups but only communicating with one another by external contact and collision.

In the next place, the atoms are so small as to lie beyond the reach of our senses.

What distinguishes him as a philosopher is the enormous range of his interests.

We have seen that the love of knowledge for its own sake was recognized at a very early time as the characteristic feature in philosophy.

democritus expressed this passion vividly by saying i had rather discover a single new explanation than be king of persia but his ambition went beyond a knowledge of things which taken alone is merely science he asked what was the nature of knowledge itself thus giving a still wider extension to philosophy of which that question has ever since formed an integral part and he seems to have been the first to point out the distinction since grown so familiar between the two great sources of knowledge sense which gives us the appearances and understanding which gives us the reality of things he owed it to the atomic theory Atomism is a reasonable inference from our sensations, but at the same time, in a way, it denies them.

So their understanding of ancient hermetics and, like I said, theosophy and resurrectionism and esoteric Freemasonry and everything else, they're all on the same page.

So they're pulling information not from centralized Rockefeller books Atomism and anatomy and physiology, that's like this, right? They're pulling from 2000 years of mystery school information that is vitalistic.

So you need to have a think tank.

And I believe that the people in this inner circle, through that think tank, use various sources to create, first of all, to organize and write down the 33 principles.

He uses the thoughts and almost the words of Parmenides when he discourses of being and of essence, adopting from old religion into philosophy the conception of God, and from the Megarians the idea of good.

He agrees with Empedocles and the Atomists in attributing the greater differences of kinds to the figures of the elements and their movements into and out of one another.

With Heraclitus, he acknowledges the perpetual flux.

Like Anaxagoras, he asserts the predominance of mind, although admitting an element of necessity which reason is incapable of subduing.

Jesus Christ, these words.

This, uh, the Atomist worldview.

It's called the Empiricist, okay? Uh, included the idea that there must be many worlds.

There is an unlimited number of cosmoi, which is worlds, and some are similar to this one, and some are dissimilar.

He uses the thoughts and almost the words of Parmenides when he discourses of being and of essence, adopting from old religion into philosophy the conception of God, and from the Megarians the idea of good.

He agrees with Empedocles and the Atomists in attributing the greater differences of kinds to the figures of the elements and their movements into and out of one another.

With Heraclitus, he acknowledges the perpetual flux.

Like Anaxagoras, he asserts the predominance of mind, although admitting an element of necessity which reason is incapable of subduing.