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   Did Aristotle mention the atomic theory?

   • is a question that Aristotle does not seem to have asked himself, nor does he mention the atomic theory in this connexion; yet it exactly meets his difficulty. For the Atomists evidently received the suggestion of their elementary principle neither from water, nor from air, nor from fire, but from earth.

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   What did Aristotle believe about atoms?

   • In Aristotle’s time, atomists held that matter was fundamentally constructed out of atoms. These atoms were indivisible and uniform, of various sizes and shapes, and capable only of change in respect of position and motion, but not intrinsic qualities.

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   Why did Aristotle reject atomism?

   • These atoms were indivisible and uniform, of various sizes and shapes, and capable only of change in respect of position and motion, but not intrinsic qualities. Aristotle rejected this doctrine, beginning his critique of it with a simple question: What are atoms made of? Atomists argue that they are all made of uniform matter.

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   What is the history of ancient atomism?

   • Since the Greek adjective atomos means, literally, ‘uncuttable,’ the history of ancient atomism is not only the history of a theory about the nature of matter, but also the history of the idea that there are indivisible parts in any kind of magnitude—geometrical extension, time, etc.

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2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › atomism-ancientAncient Atomism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Aug 23, 2005 · 2.1 Leucippus and Democritus. 2.2 Plato, Platonists and Pythagoreans. 2.3 Minima Naturalia in Aristotelian Thought. 2.4 Diodorus Cronus. 2.5 Epicurean Atomism. 2.6 Atomism and Particle Theories in Ancient Greek Sciences. 3. The Legacy of Ancient Atomism. 3.1 Atomism in the Islamic World. 3.2 Ancient Greek Atomism in Later European Philosophy.

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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.”

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   Mar 14, 2011 · Atomism. 2.1 Atomism in Aristotle and Boyle. 2.2 Atomic Realism in Contemporary Chemistry. 3. The Chemical Revolution. 3.1 Caloric. 3.2 Phlogiston. 4. Structure in Chemistry. 4.1 Structural Formulas. 4.2 The Chemical Bond. 4.3 The Structural Conception of Bonding and its Challenges. 4.4 Molecular Structure and Molecular Shape.

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   Aug 23, 2005 · Understanding, on the basis of the atomist theory, that our fears of the gods and of death are groundless will free us from our chief mental pains. Epicurus made significant changes to atomist physical theory, and some of these have been traced to Aristotle’s criticisms of Democritus.

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   Learn about the ancient and modern atomic theories of matter, from the Greek philosophers to the quantum mechanics. Find out how atoms are composed of nuclei and electrons, and how they interact with each other.

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   Aug 26, 2020 · 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 his ideas prevailed.

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   ARISTOTLE, who among his other services to knowledge incidentally ranks as the first historian of Greek philosophy, represents Atomism as having been evolved by a sort of antithetical process from the. doctrines held by the Eleatic School.