Presocratic
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See also: pre-Socratic
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Etymology
Noun
Presocratic (plural Presocratics)
- Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
- The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed.
Adjective
Presocratic
- of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.