presocratic

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1. presocratic - Noun

2. presocratic - Adjective

Meaning

before the time of Socrates

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Generally, these senses match rather well the current senses in which the English word nature is used, as confirmed by Guthrie, W.K.C. Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus (volume 2 of his History of Greek Philosophy), Cambridge UP, 1965. Source: Internet

For other ancient sources see the discussion in Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, 93-7. Source: Internet

Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1983) 3. There was also an extensive oral tradition. Source: Internet

Milesian school The first Presocratic philosophers were from Miletus on the western coast of Anatolia. Source: Internet

Others The last of the Presocratic natural philosophers was Diogenes of Apollonia from Thrace (born c. 460 BCE). Source: Internet

The Presocratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations of the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. Source: Internet

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