Anyone thinking wholes and parts are ontic categories is either a fraudester or a stupid philosopher (i.e. doubly fraudster). There is no such ontic categories. You construct new wholes to reveal the underlying fragments, you glue the fragments to uncover new wholes ad infinitum.
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Atoms are not parts but entities in their own right? And the bigger entities made up of atoms are not just composites nor causa finalis for the existence of those atoms, but entities in their own right? We should look at them in their unilaterality, non-relatedness?
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No, atoms are not entities in the way we use that term in colloquial or traditional philosophical sense. I highly suggest the text that van Fraassen wrote on whether electrons are real or not.
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