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Ideas of Anaxagoras, by Text
[Greek, c.510 - 428 BCE, Born in Clazomenae. Taught the playwright Euripides. Died at Lampsacus.]
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p.5
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22726
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When things were unified, Mind set them in order
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p.5
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22727
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances
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p.9
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5956
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Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone [Plutarch]
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p.14
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550
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite [Aristotle]
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p.45
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20802
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Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water [Cicero]
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p.47
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22761
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We reveal unreliability in the senses when we cannot discriminate a slow change of colour [Sext.Empiricus]
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p.52
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13784
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Mind is self-ruling, pure, ordering and ubiquitous [Plato]
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p.80
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2629
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Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence [Cicero]
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p.155
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367
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything [Plato]
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p.202
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5118
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Anaxagoras says mind remains pure, and so is not affected by what it changes [Aristotle]
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p.327
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21383
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries [Vlastos]
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p.357
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21822
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One [Plotinus]
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p.387
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631
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason [Aristotle]
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p.471
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13208
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water [Aristotle]
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p.509
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17995
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Basic is the potentially perceptible, then comes the contrary qualities, and finally the 'elements'
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p.695
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7488
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Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist [Watson]
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1216
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p.232
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18231
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Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens
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B03
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p.312
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21382
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Things get smaller without end
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B10
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p.307
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21381
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Germs contain microscopic organs, which become visible as they grow
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B12
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p.11
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13256
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Nous is unlimited, self-ruling and pure; it is the finest thing, with great discernment and strength
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B12
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p.85
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480
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Past, present and future, and the movements of the heavens, were arranged by Mind
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B17
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p.85
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481
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Nothing is created or destroyed; there is only mixing and separation
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B21
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p.18
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13257
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The senses are too feeble to determine the truth
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