Although Anaxagoras is not considered an atomist, he taught something that was amazingly prescient. From Wordnik.com. [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference
"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.". From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
(Phaedo 98B) is justified, that Anaxagoras 'appeal to. From Wordnik.com. [DESIGN ARGUMENT] Reference
Plato says, Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
The theories of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, etc. are refuted; i. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
It was in prison that Anaxagoras wrote his squaring of the circle, and that. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Anaxagoras (mid-fifth century B.C.) first named Mind as the originator of the cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Man, as Aristotle says (correct - ing Anaxagoras), is not the most intelligent of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anaxagoras led the way to her acquiring a far more lasting sovereignty over a far wider empire. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Anaxagoras to ask what commemoration of his life and character would be most acceptable to him. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
The teachings of Anaxagoras were destined to attain to wide-spread power over the Grecian mind. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae said that the homogeneous parts are the first principles of all things. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Anaxagoras made nous the first cause of the cosmos and the controlling principle of living things. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anaxagoras and Diogenes of Apollonia use a third type of political model, ascribing supreme power to. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anaxagoras; and besides that, the locality is pretty, and worthy of being visited on its own account. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Anaxagoras, on the other hand, insisted that the sun was a red-hot rock bigger than the Peloponnesus. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
From Prodicus he learned eloquence; from Socrates, ethics, and under Anaxagoras he studied philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Anaxagoras for not making proper use of his concept of Mind, for he did not explain how things tend towards. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This light about the moon is always new (neon) and always old (enon), if the disciples of Anaxagoras say truly. From Wordnik.com. [The CRATYLUS] Reference
It is a well-known and undisputed fact that the philosopher Anaxagoras not only taught but practised this study. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
And do you not believe with Anaxagoras, that mind or soul is the ordering and containing principle of all things?. From Wordnik.com. [The CRATYLUS] Reference
We no longer speculate with Epicurus and Anaxagoras whether the sun may be as large as a quoit, or even as large as. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
Thales had for his successors Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Anaxagoras, who taught the doctrines of the Ionian school. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Clootz and Chaumette, who called themselves Anacharsis and Anaxagoras, celebrated the worship of the Goddess of Reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Crito, Prodicus, Protagoras, Anaxagoras, and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Greek natural philosophers knew this, in thought patterns of theirs, fairly early, certainly since Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
In his astronomical theories, however, Anaxagoras showed himself a true eastern Ionian, and lagged far behind the Pythagoreans. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Anaxagoras (fifth century B.C.) assumed even as many qualitatively different atoms as there are different natural kinds of substances. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Empedocles, Anaxagoras regarded perception as the interaction of contraries; we recognize external heat by virtue of cold in ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anaxagoras too felt it necessary to assume a force or source of motion, but he thought that one would suffice to account for the rotation. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The above-mentioned Anaxagoras, for example, gave a purely ethical metaphorical re - duction to the orthodoxy of his day, while his pupil. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It has been mentioned already that Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had settled there, and it was not long before his example was followed by others. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (born B.C. 499) was the first to explain the eclipse of the moon as caused by the shadow of the earth cast by the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Even the teleology of Anaxagoras (often mentioned as the germ of the theistic argument) gives us nothing more than a poet's dream, expressed, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference
The answer to this inquiry will involve a brief examination of the contributions of the pre-Socratic philosophers (especially Anaxagoras), Socrates, Plato. From Wordnik.com. [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference
The whole was admired by all that saw it, except the philosopher Anaxagoras, who, at the sight of it, cried, "There is a great deal of money changed into stone.". From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
Democritus had made it consist in mental serenity, Anaxagoras in speculation, Socrates in wisdom, Aristotle in the practise of virtue with some amount of favour from fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
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