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The First Philosophers of Greece · Arthur Fairbanks — chapter 85 of 92 · ~158 words · public domain

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Beginning of the universe, 124 f., 129

Being, 91 f., 108, 124 f., 173, 243; not moved, 95; not generated, 95; not divided, 95, 126

Bias, 51

Blood, seat of thought, 214, 234

Blyson, 23

Body, the tomb of the soul, 133, 214; subject to change, 146; infinitely divisible, 146

Breathing, Empedokles on, 195, 227

Cause, active, 22

Change, constant, 35, 165; impossibility of, 127, 129

Chariot of Parmenides, 87

Chrysippos, 60

Chthonie, 207

Cicero, 7, 16, 21, 108, 151, 233

Circles of the heavens, 99

Clouds, 19, 256

Comets, 84, 255

Community of gods and men, 133

Condensation of matter, 9, 21, 60 f., 125

Counter-earth, 136, 148

Cube, 152 f.

Cycles of the universe, 179, 216

Darkness as first principle, 99

Day and night, 89

Death, 45, 53, 229

Decad, 144, 152

Delphi, oracle at, 27

Demokritos, 18, 33, 248, 250, 254

Destruction of things, 10, 13, 14, 82, 93 f., 119, 124, 165, 222, 245

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