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What does Empedocles mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water
  2. A volcano off the southern coast of Sicily
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So he accepted Empedocles elements as a kind of intermediary between this imponderable stuff and the tangible world.
The notion of a previous state of existence is found in the verses of Empedocles and in the fragments of Heracleitus.
He wondered if it really was Thales so much as Empedocles or Ctesias.
In 1852, Arnold published his second volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.
To his left Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles.
Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter.

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