Mechanism, sometimes known as Atomism ...

The ancient roots of the doctrine of Atomism or Mechanism

Philosophical atomism (Mechanism) is not to be confused with valid Chemical Atomism

Mechanical Theory fails to offer solutions and is therefore not science

Testing Mechanical Theory

A consideration of Gases

Philosophic aspect of Atomism

 The all pervasive Cosmology known as Mechanism has become more of a psychological mind-set than an affirmable philosophy of nature. If Thomas Hobbes' opinion that "nothing exists except matter in motion" is accepted as a given then it would seem to follow that the only Cosmology in town has to be something that caters for what can be hefted and measured. Mechanism, often termed Atomism, is actually far more sophisticated than merely a branch of Mechanics, but ultimately it denies obvious facts and always excludes one or more of the traditionally accepted "causes" or explanations which the human intellect seeks naturally; viz. How did a thing come to be? What is that thing? Of what is it made? What is its purpose? Aristotle's terms were; First, Material, Formal, and Final Causes. Warning: Any refutation of Mechanism does not propose instead that the material universe lacks physical or rather secondary causation; but that this causation is subtle and profound. Causality for example must apertain also to the marvel of human intelligence. It must also embrace direction and control in nature or, at least, explain why such obvious realities must be denied.
"Contingent events cannot be resolved into pure meanings which are the proper affair of theoretical understanding; they are known in some other way." Aquinas.