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thalesianismnoun	(very rare) The philosophy of Thales of Miletus.
anaximandernoun	(c. 610 BCE–c. 546 BCE) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus; pupil of Thales and teacher of Anaximenes.
pre-socraticnoun	(historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
milesiannoun	Pertaining to Miletus or its inhabitants.
pythagorasnoun	Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.
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.
cebesnoun	An ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes.
porphyrynoun	(geology) A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
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.
aristotlenoun	An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
timaeusnoun	One of the dialogues written by Athenian philosopher Plato around 360 BC.
presocraticnoun	Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
parmenidesnoun	An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
plethonnoun	Georgios Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1453), a Byzantine Greek philosopher.
celsusnoun	An ancient Roman encyclopaedist of the First Century, Aulus Cornelius Celsus.
protagorasnoun	A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who famously said "man is the measure of all things".
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.
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
pythagoristnoun	A Pythagorean.
plataeannoun	Of or relating to ancient Plataea.