presocratic in English
adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the speculative philosophers active in the ancient Greek world in the 6th and 5th centuries bc (before the time of Socrates), who attempted to find rational explanations for natural phenomena. They included Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Heraclitus.
noun
1
a pre-Socratic philosopher.
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1. Finally, it should go without saying that Presocratic theories do not allow one to predict behaviour.
2. This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.
3. Jonathan Barnes has painstakingly brought together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original contexts, utilizing the latest research and a newly discovered major papyrus of Empedocles.