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

他们提出了一个叫做“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自然哲学的终结。

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哲学。

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.

这种对物质的台球观点一直主导着物理学家的想象力，直到代，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个传统动力学，并隐含在其定律和公理的每一个陈述中。