logical atomism

American  

noun

1. a philosophy developed from linguistic analysis asserting that a proposition can be analyzed into simple, independent elements of meaning corresponding to elements making up basic facts about the world and reality.

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logical atomism British  

noun

1. the philosophical theory of Bertrand Russell and the early Wittgenstein which held that all meaningful expressions must be analysable into atomic elements which refer directly to atomic elements of the real world

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Example Sentences

But logical atomism was implicit even in this theory.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The philosophy which I wish to advocate may be called logical atomism or absolute pluralism, because, while maintaining that there are many things, it denies that there is a whole composed of those things.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand