We have already seen this suggested in Empedocles. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Plato, but also his near contemporary, Empedocles. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Empedocles had used a similar illustration: Love and. From Wordnik.com. [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference
In Empedocles, science and mysti - cism are curiously blended. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Empedocles himself that came to be regarded as the basis of the. 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
A pupil of Pythagoras and an older contemporary of Empedocles was. 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
He probably used as his model Empedocles 'poem περὶ φύσεως. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
The theories of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, etc. are refuted; i. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
(New York, 1964), contains the translations from Empedocles and Voltaire. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
Empedocles gave detailed explanations of sense per - ception and thought. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Man, as Empedocles and others had taught, was 'an exile and vagabond from. 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
In Empedocles 'theory of evolution, the vegetable world preceded the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Empedocles says, such unity and complete union will such a friendship produce. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, by David Randall-MacIver] Reference
So Thales, Empedocles, and Parmenides, sang their naturall Philosophie in verses. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
Empedocles, on the contrary, continued to maintain the two Pythagorean kinds of dualism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If so, Empedocles has come nearer to the concept of a soul which is quite distinct from the body. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
That Empedocles was influenced by some Pythago - rean tradition we may assume if a famous fragment. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Thus Empedocles compares the proc - ess of respiration with the action of a clepsydra (water clock). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Meanwhile it had become clear to such Greek phi - losophers as Heraclitus, Empedocles, and perhaps the. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
He accepts the elements which Empedocles has proposed on empirical grounds: fire, air, water, and earth. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Finally in Empedocles, and then in his successors, it was the mixture of separate and different elements. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He equated Empedocles 'four elements with four of the five regular convex solids Theaetetus had identi - fied. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Among the thinkers of the fifth century Empedocles alone taught a similar doctrine of the soul and its migrations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The atomist Leucippus of Miletus, a contemporary of Empedocles, expressed some more definite ideas about sensations. From Wordnik.com. [OPTICS AND VISION] Reference
Parmenides in the Way of Seeming and Empedocles in his poem On Nature revert to the idea of a cosmic balance of power. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We should today preserve Empedocles 'two gods, but we should deper - sonalize them and call them attraction and repulsion. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Empedocles, on the contrary, held that similars attract similars, but the result of the process of attraction is the same. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
Empedocles the Age of Love would return with all its blessings, and these blessings were those of the traditional Golden Age. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Do not throw yourself, O traveller, into Etna, like Empedocles, but be taken by the camera standing on the edge of the crater!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
The factors of vegetar - ianism and pacifism had come into the myth earlier in the works of Empedocles, the Sicilian philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Tarentum about 375 B.C. The fifth century was productive of great thinkers in the West — Parmenides, Zeno, Empedocles, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Empedocles of the all-pervading mistake of concluding from the fact that the soul is the cause of movement, that it is itself moved. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
Other famous Greeks mentioned in the book who visited Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)] Reference
In Empedocles (ca. 490-30 B.C.), however, we already find the rudiments of a psychology of sensation based on exclusively physical factors. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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