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DIOGENES APOLLONIATES (c. 46o B.C.)

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DIOGENES APOLLONIATES (c. 46o B.C.)  , See also:Greek natural philosopher, was a native of See also:Apollonia in See also:Crete . Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic See also:dialect, like all the physiologi (See also:physical philosophers) . There seems no doubt that he lived some See also:time at See also:Athens, where it is said that he became so unpopular (probably owing to his supposed atheistical opinions) that his See also:life was in danger . The views of See also:Diogenes are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of See also:Aristophanes to See also:Socrates . Like Anaximenes, he believed See also:air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction . His See also:chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence—" the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed . The air as the origin of all things is necessarily an eternal, imperishable substance, but as soul it is also necessarily endowed with consciousness." In fact, he belonged to the old Ionian school, whose doctrines he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, although he avoided his See also:dualism . His most important See also:work was Hepcudews (De natura), of which considerable fragments are extant (chiefly in See also:Simplicius); it is possible that he wrote also Against the See also:Sophists and On the Nature of See also:Man, to which the well-known fragment about the See also:veins would belong; possibly these discussions were subdivisions .of his See also:great work . Fragments in F . Mullach, Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum, i . (1860); F . Panzerbieter, Diogenes Apolloniates (1830), with philosophical dissertation; J .

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Burnet, See also:Early Greek See also:Philosophy (1892) ; H . See also:Ritter and L . See also:Preller, Historia philosophiae (4th ed., 1869), §§ 59-68; E . See also:Krause, Diogenes von Apollonia (1909) . See ,IONIAN SCHOOL .

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