empedocles

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Definition of empedocles in English Turkish dictionary

Empedokles

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Definition of empedocles in English English dictionary

A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water

A volcano off the southern coast of Sicily

born 490, Acragas, Sicily died 430 BC, the Peloponnese Greek philosopher, statesman, poet, and physiologist. All that remains of his writings are 500 lines from two poems. He held that all matter was composed of four basic ingredients: fire, air, water, and earth. Like Heracleitus, he held that two forces, love and strife, interact to bring together and separate the four substances. Believing in the transmigration of souls, he declared that salvation requires abstention from the flesh of animals, whose souls may once have inhabited human bodies

Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)

Hyphenation

Em·ped·o·cles

Etymology

[ em-'pe-d&-"klEz ] (biographical name.) From Ancient Greek Ἐμπεδοκλῆς (Empedoklēs).