How do you use Anaximenes in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like philosopher, plus the exact meaning.
Anaximenes in a sentence
Anaximenes meaning
An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.
Synonyms of Anaximenes
Using Anaximenes
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.
- Useful related words include: philosopher.
Context around Anaximenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anaximenes
- In this selection, "anaximenes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cools, contemporary, phenomena, likens, supposed and 585 stand out and add context to how "anaximenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air cools anaximenes supposed that and anaximenes likens the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anaximenes" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anaximenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones. (17 words)
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898. 20. Other phenomena Anaximenes used his observations and reasoning to provide causes for other natural phenomena on the earth as well. (26 words)
Anaximenes likens the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth to the way that a cap may be turned around the head. (27 words)
The Letter of Philip (speech 12) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers. (35 words)
Russell, p. 72 Prior to Empodocles, Greek philosophers had debated which substance was the primordial element from which everything else was made; Heraclitus championed fire, Thales supported water, and Anaximenes plumped for air. (33 words)
Anaximenes likens the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth to the way that a cap may be turned around the head. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
Anaximenes likens the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth to the way that a cap may be turned around the head.
As the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones.
His younger contemporary, Anaximenes (585-525 BCE), took for his principle air, conceiving it as modified, by thickening and thinning, into fire, wind, clouds, water, and earth.
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898. 20. Other phenomena Anaximenes used his observations and reasoning to provide causes for other natural phenomena on the earth as well.
Russell, p. 72 Prior to Empodocles, Greek philosophers had debated which substance was the primordial element from which everything else was made; Heraclitus championed fire, Thales supported water, and Anaximenes plumped for air.
The Letter of Philip (speech 12) to which speech 11 seems to respond may also be by Anaximenes, or it may be an authentic letter by Philip, perhaps written with the aid of his advisers.