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Definition of Empedocles

1. Noun. Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC).

Definition of Empedocles

1. Proper noun. A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water ¹

2. Proper noun. A volcano off the southern coast of Sicily ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Empedocles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1896)
"empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus, who hold this theory, differ from each other as ... empedocles empedocles,1 of Agrigentum, in Sicily (450), ..."

2. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"On the life, writings, and doctrine of empedocles, cf. besides the more comprehensive works ... Kitter, on the philosophy of empedocles, in Wolfs Literar. ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"But Aristotle doth not charge empedocles with resolving all things into fortuitous ... Nay, he clearly puts a difference betwixt empedocles and the ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"But whereas Aristotle affirms, that empedocles denied the transmutation of those elements into one another, that must needs be either и, slip in him, ..."

5. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"About the place of empedocles, his value, the position of his philosophy, etc., there are many disputes, and we have little but these to read anywhere else ..."

6. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"In order to explain the orderly change of relations, empedocles and Anaxagoras taught the existence of a spiritual force in addition to the material ..."

7. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"The Heresy of Prepon—follows empedocles—Marcion rejects the Generation of the Saviour. ... Now this, it has been manifested by us, belongs to empedocles. ..."

8. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber, Frank Thilly (1896)
"empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus, who hold this theory, differ from each other as Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Anaximander differ among themselves; ..."

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