Aristotle rejected atomism because he believed in the relative indeterminacy of matter, whereas atomism posits that matter is a collection of determinate objects whose macroscopic properties are mere summations of atomic natures.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

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• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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