The poets, Thucydides and Euripides, were students of Anaxagoras.
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Anaxagoras
Synonyms for "anaxagoras" (9 found)
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anaxagoras of clazomenaeanaxagorean doctrine
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anaxagorean philosophymind ordering theory
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pre-socratic thinkerthe anaxagoras doctrinethe philosopherthe thinker
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6 entrieshistorical figuremetaphysical theorymethod of inquiryphilosopherphilosophical doctrinepre-Socratic philosopher
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4 entriesClazomenian philosopherIonian philosopherseed theorytheory of nous
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6 entriesAnaxagoras of ClazomenaeAnaxagorean doctrineIonian philosophercosmic mindpre-Socratic philosophertheory of nous
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This conception of matter, as infinitely divisible and continuous, was taught by Anaxagoras more than four centuries before the Christian era, and in the philosophy of Aristotle the same ideas are found.
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Euripides was a student of Anaxagoras.
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The story that Anaxagoras wrote a treatise on perspective as applied to scene-painting is most improbable; and the statement that he composed a mathematical work dealing with the quadrature of the circle is due to misunderstanding of an expression in Plutarch.
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