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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 Xenophanes the protest of the reason and the conscience went together.
In this respect he resembled Xenophanes more than Parmenides.
Yet, his interpretation amends these theogonies, perhaps in light of some of the teachings of Xenophanes.
Pursuing a theme of archaic poetry, Xenophanes is the first to reflect systematically on the distinction between human opinion or guesswork and certain knowledge.
In this respect the difference between them is like that between Xenophanes and Parmenides.
It is possible that we should read Xenophanes, who, according to Diog.

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