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- Greek philosopher who held that objects are made up of infinitesimal parts, each of which contains a mixture of every different type of matter.
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- proper noun An ancient Greek philosopher (c. 500 BC – 428 BC) from Clazomenae, who is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force.
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- noun 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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Examples
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Although Anaxagoras is not considered an atomist, he taught something that was amazingly prescient.
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Following the precedent set by Weishaupt, classical pseudonyms were adopted by these leaders of the Jacobins, thus Chaumette was known as Anaxagoras, Clootz as Anacharsis, Danton as Horace, Lacroix as Publicola, and Ronsin as Scaevola [621]; again, after the manner of the Illuminati, the names of towns were changed and a revolutionary calendar was adopted.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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"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."
A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall 1880
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Because Anaxagoras did not call his idea potato chips.
Against Darwinism 2009
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In the West, Plato was an early proponent of something like this and as you well must know so was Anaxagoras.
Against Darwinism 2009
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A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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If memory serves, Anaxagoras was of the sixth century, and from the coast of Asia Minor, which would put him there after the Ionian invasion, so I'd guess he spoke an Ionian dialect.
Against Darwinism 2009
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A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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Anaxagoras was the originator of the idea of an Entity distinct from matter, which determined what matter does, so he got to define it.
Against Darwinism 2009
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