Atom: in philosophy indivisible, possibly only assumed object. Not empirical, but argumentative.
Atoms/Epicurus/Adorno: EpicurusVsDemocritus: the idea of the qualitative difference of the forms cannot be maintained. Marx also addressed this in his dissertation.
Atoms/Democritus/Epicurus/Adorno: for both, atoms were not mathematical points, but something tangible and real.
Atoms/EpicurusVsDemocritus/Adorno: the difference to Democritus consists in the fact that Epicurus' atomic concept is also unified by him opposed to the external form of the atoms, that actually all atoms are, in a strict sense, equal to each other. A progressive quantification process is making itself (...) avail.