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What does Xenophanes mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Greek given name.
  2. The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.
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In Xenophanes the protest of the reason and the conscience went together.
In this respect he resembled Xenophanes more than Parmenides.
Yet, his interpretation amends these theogonies, perhaps in light of some of the teachings of Xenophanes.
It is possible that we should read Xenophanes, who, according to Diog.
Then the pendulum swung to the other side, from rest to motion, from Xenophanes to Heracleitus.
What Xenophanes says may at once be taken as the conviction of a Mystic.

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