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Empedocles

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Em·ped·o·cles  (m-pd-klz) Fifth century b.c.
Greek philosopher who believed that all matter is composed of earth, air, fire and water, and that all change is caused by attraction and repulsion.
Empedocles [ɛmˈpɛdəˌkliːz]
n
(Biographies / Empedocles (?490 bc-430 bc) M, Greek, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, SCIENCE: scientist) ?490-430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord
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Noun1.Empedocles - Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
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Empedocles [ɛmˈpɛdəˌkliːz] n → Empedocle m
Empedocles [ɛmˈpɛdəˌkliːz] n → Empedocle m


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Even when a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse, the name of poet is by custom given to the author; and yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common but the metre, so that it would be right to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
This definition is exactly suited to the taste of Meno, who welcomes the familiar language of Gorgias and Empedocles.
Meno by Plato View in context
This band of grandees, Hermes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Plotinus, Olympiodorus, Proclus, Synesius and the rest, have somewhat so vast in their logic, so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature, and to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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