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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.