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Ideas of Theophrastus, by Text

[Greek, 371 - 287 BCE, Born at Eresus on Lesbos. Student of Aristotle, and subsequent head of the Lyceum. Taught Arcesilaus. Died at Athens.]

321BCE On the Senses
70 p.415 20921 How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature?
320BCE On Metaphysics (frags)
p.62 5990 Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Gottschalk]