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- proper noun An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from
Miletus ; the pupil ofAnaximander . He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is theair .
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- noun a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)
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Diogenes of Apollonia adopted the idea of Anaximenes, but gave a deeper significance to it.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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According to Aristotle the Milesians in general were material monists who advocated other kinds of ultimate matter: Thales water, Anaximander the boundless, Anaximenes air (Metaphysics 983b6-984a8).
Doctor, My Eyes 2009
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The Aeolians gave birth to the lyric poet Sappho; the Ionians to Homer and the natural philosophers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes; and the Dorians to Herodotus, the "Father of History."
'Aladdin's Lamp' 2009
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It was a leader in culture and art, and produced the philosophers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.
Archive 2009-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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It was a leader in culture and art, and produced the philosophers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.
Miletos Tristesse Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Others suggest that Anaximenes, in the second half of the sixth century, had already distinguished between the fixed stars, which are nailed to the ice-like vault of the sky, and planets which float on the air like leaves (DK13A7; Burkert 1972, 311).
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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Anaximander posited the unlimited as the source from which the basic material principles of the world, the opposites such as hot and cold, emerged, and his successor Anaximenes explicitly described his basic material principle air, as unlimited
Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008
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The idea is found, in crude forms, in Pythagoras 'immediate predecessors, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.
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Alcmaeon's belief that the sun is flat is another possible connection to Anaximenes, who said that the sun was flat like a leaf (DK13A15).
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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Noah's flood, as Christians suppose, or is there a vicissitude of sea and land, as Anaximenes held of old, the mountains of Thessaly would become seas, and seas again mountains?
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