Full Idea
Logical atomism is the view that you can get down in theory, if not in practice, to ultimate simples, out of which the world is built, and that those simples have a kind of reality not belonging to anything else.
Gist of Idea
Logical atoms aims to get down to ultimate simples, with their own unique reality
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §VIII)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.129
A Reaction
This dream is to empiricists what the Absolute is to rationalists - a bit silly, but an embodiment of the motivating dream.