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Atomist

Atomist \At"om*ist\, n. [Cf. F. atomiste.] One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory.
--Locke.

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atomist

n. 1 An adherent of atomism; one who believes matter is composed of elementary indivisible particles. 2 An adherent of the atomic theory.

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Reuben, of the eighty-third level, Atomist, knew there was something wrong when the binoculars flashed and then went opaque.

From the moiling intrigue of tripping your fellow Atomist and guarding against him tripping you to the heroic thrust and parry of generals!

Oscar of the eighty-fifth level, Atomist, ostentatiously take his name.

Right-Hand path has two major and warring camps: the atomists, who study the surfaces of only individuals, and the wholists, who insist that whole systems, and not individuals, are the primary object of study.

Enlightenment paradigm, there were two warring camps: flatland atomists and flatland holists.

If the skein of historical causality had been different - if the brilliant guesses of the atomists on the nature of matter, the plurality of worlds, the vastness of space and time had been treasured and built upon, if the innovative technology of Archimedes had been taught and emulated, if the notion of invariable laws of Nature that humans must seek out and understand had been widely propagated - I wonder what kind of world we would live in now.

The Right-Hand path has two major and warring camps: the atomists, who study the surfaces of only individuals, and the wholists, who insist that whole systems, and not individuals, are the primary object of study.

And within this subtle reductionism, within the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm, there were two warring camps: flatland atomists and flatland holists.

However, the argument between the two schools of thought was not finally settled in favor of the atomists until the early years of this century.