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Simples
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A simple is a specific sort of basic building block of the universe that some philosophers allege make up the universe. Examples of such philosophers are Hud Hudson, Peter van Inwagen, Ned Markosian, to name a few. The word "simple", in this sense, comes from Euclid, but has enjoyed widespread usage among contemporary philosophers since the publication Peter van Inwagen's famous book, Material Beings. Simples theory (or what is often called the philosophy of material simples) is similar to the philosophy of atomism, but it is different in that simples theory is not a mereologist nihilist theory, whereas atomism usually is. According to mereological nihilism, the only things that exist are fundamental particles. But according to simples theory, unlike mereological nihilism, these fundamental particles compose objects, like chairs and cars and human bodies.