Explore Presocratic through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like philosopher or athenian. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Presocratic meaning
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.
Synonyms of Presocratic
Using Presocratic
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: pre-socratic, philosopher, athenian.
- In the example corpus, presocratic often appears in combinations such as: the presocratic, presocratic philosophers.
Context around Presocratic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Presocratic
- In this selection, "presocratic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, philosophers, tradition and natural stand out and add context to how "presocratic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include k c presocratic tradition from and of the presocratic natural philosophers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "presocratic" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with presocratic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Milesian school The first Presocratic philosophers were from Miletus on the western coast of Anatolia. (15 words)
For other ancient sources see the discussion in Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, 93-7. (16 words)
Others The last of the Presocratic natural philosophers was Diogenes of Apollonia from Thrace (born c. 460 BCE). (18 words)
Generally, these senses match rather well the current senses in which the English word nature is used, as confirmed by Guthrie, W.K.C. Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus (volume 2 of his History of Greek Philosophy), Cambridge UP, 1965. (41 words)
Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1983) 3. There was also an extensive oral tradition. (20 words)
The Presocratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations of the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. (20 words)
Example sentences (6)
For other ancient sources see the discussion in Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, 93-7.
Generally, these senses match rather well the current senses in which the English word nature is used, as confirmed by Guthrie, W.K.C. Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus (volume 2 of his History of Greek Philosophy), Cambridge UP, 1965.
Kirk and Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1983) 3. There was also an extensive oral tradition.
Milesian school The first Presocratic philosophers were from Miletus on the western coast of Anatolia.
Others The last of the Presocratic natural philosophers was Diogenes of Apollonia from Thrace (born c. 460 BCE).
The Presocratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations of the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations.
Common combinations with presocratic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: