pre-socratic Synonyms
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pre-socratic Meaning
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pre-socratic (n)
any philosopher who lived before Socrates
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pre-socratic (a)
before the time of Socrates
pre-socratic Sentence Examples
- Pre-Socratic philosophers sought to understand the fundamental nature of reality.
- Thales of Miletus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, believed that water was the primordial substance.
- Anaximander, another pre-Socratic, proposed the concept of an apeiron, an infinite and indeterminate substance.
- Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic, argued that everything is in a constant state of flux.
- Parmenides, a pre-Socratic, denied the existence of change and motion.
- Zeno of Elea, a disciple of Parmenides, formulated a series of paradoxes questioning the possibility of motion.
- Empedocles, a pre-Socratic, proposed that the universe was composed of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
- Democritus, a pre-Socratic, developed an atomic theory of matter.
- Socrates is often considered the first philosopher to break away from the pre-Socratic tradition.
- Plato's theory of Forms was influenced by the pre-Socratic search for the underlying unity of the world.
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any philosopher who lived before Socrates, before the time of Socrates
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Pre-Socratic philosophers sought to understand the fundamental nature of reality.
Thales of Miletus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, believed that water was the primordial substance.
Anaximander, another pre-Socratic, proposed the concept of an apeiron, an infinite and indeterminate substance.
Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic, argued that everything is in a constant state of flux.
