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n. - A presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC).

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  • Although Anaxagoras is not considered an atomist, he taught something that was amazingly prescient.
  • "Anaxagoras," he says, "uses Mind only as a kind of last resort, dragging it in when he fails otherwise to account for a phenomenon, but never thinking of it else."
  • (Phaedo 98B) is justified, that Anaxagoras 'appeal to
  • Plato says, Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
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