Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏛️ From ancient Miletus 🍀 Irish myth people 👤 Person from Miletus
Milesian

Milesian

9.9
Relating to the ancient Greek city of Miletus, its people or culture
  • adjective
  • /maɪˈliːʌn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : milesio
  • But it is not often appreciated just how radically different Heraclitus' metaphysics of change is from that implicit in the Milesian natural philosophers and explicated and elaborated by Aristotle.

Examples

  • The Milesian cosmologists, according to Karl Popper, "envisaged the world as a kind of house, the home of all creatures—our home" (Popper 1965, 141).

    Academic text (1991)

  • The Milesian school included philosophers who were among the first to seek rational explanations for natural events.

  • The ancient Greeks studied Milesian philosophy, which emphasized natural explanations for phenomena.

  • Many Milesian thinkers focused on the origins of the universe and concepts of substance.

Compounds

Milesian philosophy
9.9

An early Greek way of thinking about nature and the universe that explains things without using myths

Milesian thinker
9.9

A person from the ancient Greek city Miletus who studied nature

Surface Forms

Milesian positive

Etymology

Milesian comes from the ancient city Miletus, so it means 'from Miletus' or about its people and culture. That's why we use it for the early Greek philosophers and artifacts connected to that city.