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Meanings of pre-Socratic in English

Before the time of Socrates.

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Examples for "philosopher"
Examples for "philosopher"
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This is the inquiry of the true philosopher who is in labor.
A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridi...
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A short essay by the Israeli philosopher Adi Ophir underpins the work.
The South African
3
I am a battered old philosopher with one foot in the grave.
Simon the Jester
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In 1518 Wang Yang-ming, the philosopher general, crushed a rising in Kiangsi.
A History of China
5
The words of the ancient philosopher were soaking in with the rain.
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
1
It is this more than any other element which distinguishes Plato, not only from the presocratic philosophers, but from Socrates himself.
Philebus
Usage of pre-Socratic in English
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For of all the pre-Socratic philosophers, he speaks of them with the greatest respect.
Parmenides
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Some of the pre-Socratic philosophers, in fact-
The Anubis Gates
3
Well, it was understood by the pre-Socratic philosophers that all four of these propositions cannot simultaneously be true.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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The latest of the important pre-Socratic philosophers of the Italic school was Empedocles, who was born about 494 B.C.
A History of Science — Volume 1
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He is never able to reconcile the first causes of the pre-Socratic philosophers with the final causes of Socrates himself.
Timaeus
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All in all, then, the work of Anaxagoras must stand as that of perhaps the most far-seeing scientific imagination of pre-Socratic antiquity.
A History of Science — Volume 1
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Known for his work on loop quantum gravity theory and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander, Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators.
The Guardian
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Names all unknown in ages pre-Socratic;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919
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In effect, Einstein rehabilitated the belief held by pre-Socratic and later religious philosophers: that time belonged to the realm of appearances, not of reality.
BBC
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Many, if not all the elements of the Pre-Socratic philosophy are included in the Timaeus.
Timaeus
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The Pre-Socratic philosophies are simpler, and we may observe a progress in them; but is there any regular succession?
Sophist
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