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Anaximenes

noun
1.
A presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC).





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... a Greek philosopher of the Ionic school, and an adherent of ANAXIMENES (q. v.), if of any one, being more of an eclectic than anything else; took more to physics than philosophy; contributed nothing to the philosophic movement of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... the custom for all good and great men at their deaths to have an oration made over them by the leading men of the time. This is said to have been older even than the Greek funeral orations, unless, as Anaximenes tells us, Solon introduced ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch


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