Assertion: newton's philosophy | /r/CapableOf | stand in direct opposition
Facets:
value: to atomism
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Descartes, it can be justly said, is the founder of the other main school of the “mechancal philosophy” of the 17th Century, which stood in direct opposition to atomism on the issue of the possibility of a vacuum and which adapted the Aristotelian doctrines on the nature of time, space, and motion to the new world view.