Anaximenes
Speech parts
1. Anaximenes - Noun
2. Anaximenes - Proper noun
Meaning
a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)
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Examples
As the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones.
His younger contemporary, Anaximenes (585-525 BCE), took for his principle air, conceiving it as modified, by thickening and thinning, into fire, wind, clouds, water, and earth.
Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias : "It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias."
Anaximenes likens the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth to the way that a cap may be turned around the head.
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898. 20. Other phenomena Anaximenes used his observations and reasoning to provide causes for other natural phenomena on the earth as well.
Russell, p. 72 Prior to Empodocles, Greek philosophers had debated which substance was the primordial element from which everything else was made; Heraclitus championed fire, Thales supported water, and Anaximenes plumped for air.