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- Empedocles (/ɛmˈpɛdəkliːz/; Gr****: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; c. 494 – c. 434 BC, fl. 444–443 BC) was a Gr**** pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas...
- Aristotelian elements and qualities Empedoclean elements    fire  · air     water  · earth...
- gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. These correspond to the four Empedoclean elements of antiquity: earth, water, air, and fire, respectively. Terms...
- characters such as the old woman, events such as the pilgrimage, and the four Empedoclean or "classical" elements, all providing contrast against Christian morals...
- two of the four sensible qualities, hot, cold, wet, and dry. In the Empedoclean scheme, all matter was made of the four elements, in differing proportions...
- especially in Physics book I. He adopted as reasonable suppositions the four Empedoclean elements, but added a fifth, aether. Nevertheless, these elements are...
- Mirour and Vox Clamatis, to a final synthesis of royal responsibiity of Empedoclean love in the Confessio Amantis.: 136  In later years Gower published a...
- in which all substances derive from earth, water, air, and fire. The Empedoclean element of fire is perhaps the prin****l ancestor of later concepts such...
- according to Leroi, Aristotle was in any case discussing ontogeny, the Empedoclean coming into being of an individual from component parts, not phylogeny...
- Zurvanism. Materialist Zurvanism was influenced by the Aristotelian and Empedoclean view of matter, and took "some very **** forms". While Zoroaster's Ormuzd...