Presocratic

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See also: pre-Socratic

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ Socratic.

Noun

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Presocratic (plural Presocratics)

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  1. Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
      The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed.

Adjective

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Presocratic

  1. of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.