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Anaxagoras

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Noun

1. anaxagoras

a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)

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Anaxagoras

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noun
?500–428 bc, Greek philosopher who maintained that all things were composed of minute particles arranged by an eternal intelligence

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Anaxagoras

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500?-428? b.c.; Gr. philosopher from Ionia who taught in Athens

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Anaxagoras

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Greek philosopher who held that objects are made up of infinitesimal parts, each of which contains a mixture of every different type of matter.

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