Philosophy 09-10

involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes

a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC)

a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)

a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)

ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon

ancient Athenian philosopher

Greek general and historian; student of Socrates

ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)

Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects

a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous