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Aug 23, 2005 · This powerful and consistent materialism was regarded by Aristotle as a chief competitor to teleological natural philosophy; following his criticisms, the theory was reformulated by Epicurus and had a second life as the philosophy of a school devoted to the pursuit of tranquillity and a communal life of simple pleasures.
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Thus, Plato and Aristotle attacked Democritus’s atomic theory on philosophical grounds rather than on scientific ones. Plato valued abstract ideas more than the physical world and rejected the notion that attributes such as goodness and beauty were “mechanical manifestations of material atoms.”
atomic theory, ancient philosophical speculation that all things can be accounted for by innumerable combinations of hard, small, indivisible particles (called atoms) of various sizes but of the same basic material; or the modern scientific theory of matter according to which the chemical elements that combine to form the great variety of substa...
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What were Aristotle's contributions to the atomic theory? Flexi Says: Aristotle disagreed with Democritus and offered his own idea of the composition of matter. According to Aristotle, everything was composed of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. The theory of Democritus explained things better, but Aristotle was more influential, so ...
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History of atomic theory. The current theoretical model of the atom involves a dense nucleus surrounded by a probabilistic "cloud" of electrons. Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. The definition of the word "atom" has changed over the years in response to scientific discoveries.
