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    Anaxagoras was a Greek philosopher who lived from 500-432 BC. He was the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians and suggest that mind was the primary cause of physical changes. He also correctly theorized that the moon shone via reflected light and had accurate theories of eclipses and that the sun was a hot stone. Additionally, he believed that reality was infinitely divisible and contained "seeds" of all elements that have always existed in everything in varying proportions.

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    Anaxagoras was a Greek philosopher who lived from 500-432 BC. He was the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians and suggest that mind was the primary cause of physical changes. He also correctly theorized that the moon shone via reflected light and had accurate theories of eclipses and that the sun was a hot stone. Additionally, he believed that reality was infinitely divisible and contained "seeds" of all elements that have always existed in everything in varying proportions.

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    Anaxagoras was a Greek philosopher who lived from 500-432 BC. He was the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians and suggest that mind was the primary cause of physical changes. He also correctly theorized that the moon shone via reflected light and had accurate theories of eclipses and that the sun was a hot stone. Additionally, he believed that reality was infinitely divisible and contained "seeds" of all elements that have always existed in everything in varying proportions.

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    Anaxagoras

     500-432 BC
     First to introduce philosophy to Athenians
    (encouraged by Pericles)
    – Athenians prosecuted him so he left
     First to suggest mind as primary cause of
    physical changes
     First to explain moon shines by reflected
    light
     Correct theory of eclipses, sun (hot stone)
    and moon (mountains and…inhabitants?)
    Infinitely Divisible
    No new reality can originate, therefore
    everything existed since always
     reality reducible to an infinite number of
    “seeds.”
    – “seeds” contain elements of everything and
    are in everything (some more than others)
    – “Everything participates in everything“
    – Particles originally in huge mass that began
    separating… how??

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