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Anaxag`oras

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Greek philosopher of Clazomenæ, in Ionia, removed to Athens and took philosophy along with him, i. e . transplanted it there, but being banished thence for impiety to the gods, settled in Lampsacus, was the first to assign to the nous , conceived of "as a purely immaterial principle, a formative power in the origin and organisation of things"; d . 425 B.C.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Anaxag`oras'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/anaxagoras.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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