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eleaticnoun	Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
anaximenesnoun	(c. 585 BCE–c. 525 BCE) An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.
anaximandernoun	(c. 610 BCE–c. 546 BCE) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus; pupil of Thales and teacher of Anaximenes.
plethonnoun	Georgios Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1453), a Byzantine Greek philosopher.
epicurusnoun	(historical) An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement known as Epicureanism.
leucippusnoun	(philosophy) an Ancient Greek philosopher from Miletus, the founder of atomism and the first thinker in western history to consider determinism as a possibility, disciple of Zeno of Elea
eleaticismnoun	The Eleatic doctrine.
thalesnoun	A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor.
pre-socraticnoun	(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
empedoclesnoun	A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water.
milesiannoun	Pertaining to Miletus or its inhabitants.
epimenidesnoun	Epimenides of Knossos.
archelausnoun	Any of various kings in the area of Macedonia dating from BC 399 to AD 6, most notably Herod Archelaus, an ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD.
periclesnoun	(historical) An Ancient Greek politician.
cebesnoun	An ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes.
aristotlenoun	An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
anaxagorasnoun	An ancient Greek philosopher (c. 500 BCE – 428 BCE) from Clazomenae, who is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of nous (mind), as an ordering force.
neoplatonistnoun	(philosophy) A member of the philosophical school of Neoplatonism.
antisthenesnoun	A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs), notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates.
philodemusnoun	Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet