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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Greek philosophers or philosophical systems of thought before Socrates.
- noun A pre-Socratic philosopher.
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- adjective historical
Existing inAncient Greece before theflourishing of thephilosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BC). - noun historical Any one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BC), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BC), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BC), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BC), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BC), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BC), Parmenides (early-5th century BC), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BC), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BC), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BC).
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Examples
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You might start by reading all of philosophy, from pre-Socratic to the last semester.
John Hood: Hard Print: John Barth on Fistfights, Riots and Shadow Boxing With Norman Mailer John Hood 2012
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Thales, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, called this the First Principle.
Brian Keene 2010
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Both the Kimbell's own "Pythagoras Coming Out of a Cave" (1662) and "The Death of Empedocles" (1665-1670) — the first European painting of a volcano, according to Ms. Langdon — deal with pre-Socratic philosophers who were renowned for magical powers and their status as tricksters.
Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011
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You might start by reading all of philosophy, from pre-Socratic to the last semester.
John Hood: Hard Print: John Barth on Fistfights, Riots and Shadow Boxing With Norman Mailer John Hood 2012
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Thales, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, called this the First Principle.
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That detour through the pre-Socratic philosophers aside, I just wanted to say, nice post!
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"20 Sculptures in One Hour" is a little pre-Socratic essay on how to divide time.
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"20 Sculptures in One Hour" is a little pre-Socratic essay on how to divide time.
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Apparently when sophistry was being bandied about as a pre-Socratic school of philosophy in ancient Greece someone who set out to become worldly-wise long ago they came back with new ideas on religion, societal mores and sexual alternatives, thus becoming perverted and corrupted to the values and practices of their own culture.
Tim Hanni: Pervsion, Corruption and Wine Appreciation Tim Hanni 2010
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The waterfall runs all day and night, shedding big self on the rocks below, refilling with more self, more self, more self, while bathers visit in small groups, never the same bathers, always the same river -- my local, inverted, redneck pre-Socratic.
Christopher Lydon: Poet-Critic Dan Chiasson, the Natural (AUDIO) 2010
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