They developed an idea called " atomism" : That everything is made of lots of lots of tiny, indivisible things.

他们提出了一叫做“原子论”的想法：一切都是由许多微小的、不可分割的东西组成的。

Democritus's atom theory marked the end of Greek natural philosophy for the time being.

德谟克利特的原子论暂时标志着希腊学的终结。

Another problem with logical atomism is that it cannot adequately explain its own theory.

逻辑原子论的另一问题是它不能充分解释己的理论。

This, then, would make logical atomism, and most of philosophy, meaningless.

那么，将使逻辑原子论和大部分学变得毫无意义。

Wittgenstein in his early life developed a theory of logical atomism similar to that of Russell's.

维特根斯在他的早年发展了一种类似于罗素的逻辑原子论理论。

Through his logical atomism, then, the world would correspond to his specially constructed logical language.

那么，通过他的逻辑原子论，世界将对应于他专门构建的逻辑语言。

According to logical atomism, we should analyze this statement into its atomic propositions and test their truth or falsity.

根据逻辑原子论，我们应该将述分析成它的原子命题，并检验它们的真伪。

The theory of atomism envisioned by Leucippus and Democritus had a long and influential history.

由Leucippus和Democritus设想的原子论理论有着悠久而有影响力的历史。

Russell rejected the unintelligible claims of idealist metaphysicians and, inspired instead by the precision of mathematics, he developed the theory of logical atomism.

罗素拒绝了唯心主义形而上学家难以理解的主张，相反，他受到数学精确性的启发，他发展了逻辑原子论。

18-1-2Logical Atomism Bertrand Russell's point of departure in philosophy was his admiration for the precision of mathematics.

18-1-2逻辑原子论 伯特兰·罗素（Bertrand Russell）在学上的出发点是他对数学精确性的钦佩。

That is, he attempted to describe the relation between words and facts, as though their description was somehow immune from logical atomist theory itself.

也就是说，他试图描述词语和事实之间的关系，就好像它们的描述在某种程度上不受逻辑原子论本身的影响。

The third type, which may be called " logical atomism" for want of a better name, has gradually crept into philosophy through the critical scrutiny of mathematics.

第三种类型，由于没有更好的名字，可以称为“逻辑原子论”，它通过对数学的批判性审查逐渐渗入学。

The only book of Wittgenstein's published during his lifetime is his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1919), which develops a theory of logical atomism similar to that of Russell's.

维特根斯一生中出版的唯一一本书是他早期的 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus（1919 年），该书发展了一种类似于罗素的逻辑原子论理论。

While Moore set out to analyze commonsense language, Russell tried to analyze " facts" for the purpose of inventing a new language, namely, logical atomism.

当摩尔着手分析常识性语言时，罗素试图分析“事实”，以发明一种新的语言，即逻辑原子论。

1-4THE ATOMISTS 1-4-1Atoms and the Void According to Aristotle, the philosophy of atomism originated as an attempt to overcome the logical consequences of the Eleatic denial of space.

1-4原子论 1-4-1原子与虚空 根据亚里士多德的说法, 原子论学起源于试图克服伊利亚特人否认空间的逻辑后果。

After Newton atomism held sway until quantum theory and Einstein gave contemporary science a new conception of matter, which denied the attribute of indestructibility to the atoms.

在牛顿之后, 原子论占据了主导地位, 直到量子理论和爱因斯为当代科学提供了新的物质概念, 否定了原子不可摧毁的属性。

This billiard-ball view of matter dominated the imagination of physicists until quite modern times, until, in fact, it was replaced by the electromagnetic theory, which in its turn is developing into a new atomism.

种对物质的台球观点一直主导着物理学家的想象力，直到相当近代，直到事实上，它被电磁理论所取代，而电磁理论又发展成为一种新的原子论。

Apart from the special form of the atomic theory which was invented for the needs of chemistry, some kind of atomism dominated the whole of traditional dynamics, and was implied in every statement of its laws and axioms.

除了为化学需要而发明的特殊形式的原子理论外，某种原子论支配着整传统动力学，并隐含在其定律和公理的每一述中。