pre-Socratic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of pre-Socratic
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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When they were finally together, they made a little more small talk — regarding the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus — and were soon bonding over a mutual love of cycling, camping, red meat and wine.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2020
Can one lone pre-Socratic in a canoe teach you everything you failed to learn about philosophy in college?
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015
Anaximander, as every map-lover surely knows, is the pre-Socratic philosopher who is thought by some scholars to have devised the first map of the world.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013
Some trace the argument back to pre-Socratic philosophers.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2012
Ideas resulting in the context of pre-Socratic and Socratic dialogue have a more pronounced deductive, speculative nuance than those expressed in the analytic discourse of written Greek philosophy.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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