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  • adjective before the time of Socrates

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Examples

  • He was the presocratic philospher who originated the concept of Nous, which roughly translates to Mind.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • He was the presocratic philospher who originated the concept of Nous, which roughly translates to Mind.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • I chose AnaxagorasRules because he was the presocratic philosopher/physicist that said Mind was the order behind the universe.

    A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

  • Perhaps nowhere in presocratic philosophy can we find a clearer expression of the character of the Ionian

    Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008

  • It is this more than any other element which distinguishes Plato, not only from the presocratic philosophers, but from Socrates himself.

    Philebus 2006

  • Fragment 17, cited here, and others may be found also in other collections including selections from the presocratic Greek philosophers 'surviving writings and in editions of Empedocles.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • In the presocratic philosophy mankind had been striving to attain an expression of their ideas, and now they were beginning to ask themselves whether the expression might not be distinguished from the idea?

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • The dry attempt to reduce the presocratic philosophy by his own rather arbitrary standard of the four causes, contrasts unfavourably with Plato’s general discussion of the same subject (Sophist).

    Philebus 2006

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