Anaximenes of Miletus
Greek Ionian Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.586–c.526 BC)
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Ancient Greek philosopher who rounded out the Milesian School trio before everything he wrote vanished into history. Later writers had to piece together his ideas on air, change, and the cosmos from secondhand accounts.
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Anaximenes of Miletus was an Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Anatolia. He was the last of the three philosophers of the Milesian School, after Thales and Anaximander. These three are regarded by historians as the first philosophers of the Western world. Little is known of Anaximenes's life and work, as all of his original texts are lost. Historians and philosophers have reconstructed information about Anaximenes by interpreting texts about him by later writers.
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