Andrew G.M. van Melsen
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Author of From Atomos to Atom and others.
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Atomism, any doctrine that explains complex phenomena in terms of aggregates of fixed particles or units. This philosophy has found its most successful application in natural science: according to the atomistic view, the material universe is composed of minute particles, which are considered to beβ¦
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