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Also Known As	Phainias • Phaenias
Flourished	c.300 BCE -
Subjects Of Study	logic

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Theophrastus

Greek philosopher

Aristoxenus

Greek philosopher

Straton Of Lampsacus

Greek philosopher

Critolaus

Greek philosopher

Diodorus Cronus

Greek philosopher

Dicaearchus

Greek philosopher

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

Thucydides

Greek historian

Xenophon

Greek historian

Herodotus

Greek historian

Polybius

Greek historian

Strabo

Greek geographer and historian

Epicurus

Greek philosopher

Democritus

Greek philosopher

St. Justin Martyr

Christian apologist

Xenocrates

Greek philosopher

Epictetus

Greek philosopher

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