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Xenophanes of Colophon (/zəˈnɒfəniːz/ zuh-NOF-uh-neez; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος [ksenopʰánɛːs ho kolopʰɔ̌ːnios]; c. 570 – c.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xenophanes | Born | c. 570 BC Colophon, Ionian League | 1.00 | infobox |
| Xenophanes | Died | c. 478 BC (aged c. 92) Syracuse, Sicily (modern-day Italy) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Xenophanes | Era | Pre-Socratic philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| Xenophanes | Main interests | Social criticism Natural philosophy Epistemology | 1.00 | infobox |
| Xenophanes | Notable ideas | Polytheistic religious views as human projections Earth is the arche The distinction between knowledge and mere true belief | 1.00 | infobox |
| Xenophanes | Region | Western philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| clouds or rainbows without references to divine or mythological explanations | instance of | Xenophanes sought explanations for physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| but instead based on first principles | instance of | Xenophanes sought explanations for physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| the Eleatics | instance of | Later philosophers | 0.80 | text |
| the Pyrrhonists saw Xenophanes as the founder of their doctrines | instance of | Later philosophers | 0.80 | text |
| and interpreted his work in terms of those doctrines | instance of | Later philosophers | 0.80 | text |
| although modern scholarship disputes these claims..mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul | instance of | Later philosophers | 0.80 | text |
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