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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 this respect the difference between them is like that between Xenophanes and Parmenides.
Pursuing a theme of archaic poetry, Xenophanes is the first to reflect systematically on the distinction between human opinion or guesswork and certain knowledge.
It is possible that we should read Xenophanes, who, according to Diog.
In the history of Greek thought the collision came in the days of Xenophanes.
In Xenophanes the protest of the reason and the conscience went together.
Xenophanes seems to have believed that the earth was an infinite plane rather than a finite disk.

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