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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (c. 500 - 428 B.C.) was an early Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ionia, although he was one of the first philosophers to move to Athens as a base. He is sometimes considered to be part of the poorly-defined school of Pluralism , and some of his ideas also influenced the later development of Atomism . Many of his ideas in the physical sciences were quite revolutionary in their day, and quite insightful in retrospect.
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Epistemology is the study of the nature and scope of knowledge and justified belief. It analyzes the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth, belief and justification. It also deals with the means of production of…
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The Pre-Socratic period of the Ancient era of philosophy refers to Greek philosophers active before Socrates , or contemporaries of Socrates who expounded on earlier knowledge. They include the following major philosophers: Generally speaking, all…
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Deconstructionism (or sometimes just Deconstruction) is a 20th Century school in philosophy initiated by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. It is a theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth;…
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