Anaximenes
Americannoun
noun
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Thales and two of his students, Anaximander and Anaximenes, made up the monist Milesian school.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Anaximenes held that air was the basic substance of the universe.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Following Anaximander, a third scientist, Anaximenes, created the theory of the four elements that, he argued, comprise all things – earth, air, fire, and water.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Thales thought its primal substance was water, Anaximenes air, Heraclitus fire.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
It remained for Spengel to entitle the work Anaximenis Ars Rhetorica in his edition of 1847, and thus substitute for the name of the philosopher Aristotle that of the sophist Anaximenes on his title-page.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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