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Diogenes of Apollonia
Diogenes of Apollonia
c. 500 BCE–c. 428 BCE · Apollonia
Diogenes of Apollonia was a Greek natural philosopher of the 5th century BCE, counted among the Presocratics. He held that air is the fundamental substance and the source of life and intelligence in the cosmos, blending earlier ideas about a single underlying element with an interest in the nature of mind. His work survives only in fragments and later summaries.
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A Greek colonial town whose name was borne by many cities, remembered in the history of ideas as the home of Diogenes of Apollonia, the last of the great Presocratic natural philosophers, who made air the divine source of all things.
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