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A more formal intro to the Anaxagoras story: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anaxagoras/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anaxagoras/ "Democritus, a young
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A more formal intro to the Anaxagoras story: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anaxagoras/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anaxagoras/
"Democritus, a younger contemporary, dated his own life in relation to Anaxagoras’, saying that he was young in the old age of Anaxagoras (DK59A5); he reportedly accused Anaxagoras of plagiarism. Although Anaxagoras lived in Athens when Socrates was a youth and young adult, there are no reports that Anaxagoras and Socrates ever met. In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates says that he heard someone reading from Anaxagoras’ book.... As with all the Presocratics, Anaxagoras’ work survives only in fragments..."