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Empedocles and Materialism

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Difference between Empedocles and Materialism

Empedocles vs. Materialism

Empedocles (Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, Empedoklēs) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.

Similarities between Empedocles and Materialism

Empedocles and Materialism have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anaxagoras, Atomism, Lucretius, Matter, Ontology, Perception, Pre-Socratic philosophy.

Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

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Atomism

Atomism (from Greek ἄτομον, atomon, i.e. "uncuttable", "indivisible") is a natural philosophy that developed in several ancient traditions.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (15 October 99 BC – c. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

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Matter

In the classical physics observed in everyday life, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

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Ontology

Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.

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Pre-Socratic philosophy

A number of early Greek philosophers active before and during the time of Socrates are collectively known as the Pre-Socratics.

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Empedocles and Materialism Comparison

Empedocles has 104 relations, while Materialism has 179. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 2.47% = 7 / (104 + 179).

References

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