Definitions for anaxagoras
ˌæn ækˈsæg ər əsanaxago·ras

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1. Anaxagorasnoun

   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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1. Anaxagorasnoun

   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.

2. Etymology: From Ἀναξαγόρας.

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1. anaxagoras

   Anaxagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher who was known for introducing the concept of Nous (Cosmic Mind) as the organizing principle of the cosmos. Born in Clazomenae in 500 BC, he was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He proposed many scientific theories about various phenomena such as solar eclipses, meteor showers and rainbows, and also postulated that all matter was infinitely divisible and composed of infinitely diverse particles. Anaxagoras also had a significant influence on other philosophers such as Socrates and Plato.

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1. Anaxagoras

   Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch, he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles. Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous, as an ordering force. He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation, respectively.

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1. Anaxagoras

   A Greek philosopher of the Ionic school, born about 499 B.C., lived at Athens and enjoyed the friendship of Pericles. In 450 B.C. he was accused of Atheism for maintaining the eternity of matter and was banished to Lampsacus, where he died in 428 B.C. It is related that, being asked how he desired to be honored after death, he replied, “Only let the day of my death be observed as a holiday by the boys in the schools.” He taught that generation and destruction are only the union and separation of elements which can neither be created nor annihilated.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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4. ^ Wikidata
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5. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers
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