atomist
Noun
Meaning
One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory.
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The Epicureans also used the atomist theories of Democritus and Leucippus to assert that man has free will.
Particle theory main Pierre Gassendi Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light which was published posthumously in the 1660s.
Nancey Murphy has claimed that there are two species of ontological reductionism: one that denies that wholes are anything more than their parts; and the stronger thesis of atomist reductionism that wholes are not "really real".
Like Democritus, he was an atomist, believing that the fundamental constituents of the world were indivisible little bits of matter ( atoms ; Greek: ἄτομος atomos, "indivisible") flying through empty space (Greek: κενόν kenon).