air bladder
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air blad·der
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n.
an air-filled bladder or sac found in certain animals and plants.
∎ another term for swim bladder.
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Words: Cynical
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/23/1998; ; 549 words
; ...Diogenes in his tub, and would have upset Antisthenes, the first cynic of all. He was a...was Diogenes, his disciple, who gave Antisthenes's movement a bad name by snarling...came from the Cynosarges, the building Antisthenes taught in. Anyway, "cynical" has...
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Phronesis: Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2005.(Character overview)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...most important disciples of Socrates (Antisthenes, Plato, Xenophon) rehabilitate the...The word polutropia is ambiguous: for Antisthenes, it means either "diversity of styles...hero, Achilles. However, whereas Antisthenes tries to clarify these different meanings...
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Plato writes on the dangers of writing.
Magazine article from: International Journal of Humanities and Peace; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Antisthenes, a student of Socrates, had a friend who complained that he lost his notes (hypomenmata). To this Antisthenes countered, "You should have inscribed them in your mind (psyche) and not on paper." (quoted in Thomas 1989, 33...
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Pay attention to Cynosure
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 6/8/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...tell you. They called the followers of a philosopher called Antisthenes, himself a student of Socrates, `kunikos' because they...kuno- sarge', the Greek word for the gymnasium where Antisthenes taught. I'm no dog!" All hell breaks loose and the cafe...
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Luddites are just a modern invention
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...misconceptions and garbled history. The Greek philosopher Antisthenes would doubtless be issuing writs on a daily basis were he...founder of the 4th century BC sect known as The Cynics, Antisthenes actually considered virtue to be the sole route to lasting...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+News+Service) "The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Dwelling in the land of the free and the home of the disillusioned.
Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 9/30/2003; 700+ words
; ...it has been around since at least 400 B.C., when a disillusioned Greek philosopher named Antisthenes founded the cynicism "movement." Antisthenes despised life so much he recommended suicide _ yet, curiously, failed to take his own advice...
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The needle's eye.(The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the fifth century, and his forerunner and possible teacher Antisthenes (who has direct ties to Socrates) is born years before...Antiquity and Its Legacy, and new studies of Diogenes and Antisthenes by Luis Navia relate Cynicism's reflection of Greek culture...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Artist and the tramp; Mummified body found hidden in painter's cupboard after 18-year saga.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/12/2002; 700+ words
; ...philosophy after his father Icesias, a banker, was forced to leave the country for debasing the public coin. He became a pupil of Antisthenes, who said that true happiness is not reliant on external things such as material wealth or power.
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Those treasured moments
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/29/1996; 420 words
; "Royalty does good and is badly spoken of." So wrote the philosopher, Antisthenes, in the 5th century BC. If he were around today, he may need a slight rethink. 1981: Charles on his engagement: "I am positively...
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In defence (seriously) of cynicism and apathy.(Britain)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/24/2001; 700+ words
; ...are parts of the body politic's immune system. They keep democracy healthy. Cynics, it is true, have changed since Antisthenes and his followers barked at the folly and injustices of ancient Greece. The modern cynic, less high-minded, has inherited...
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Antisthenes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Antisthenes The Greek philosopher Antisthenes (ca. 450-360 B.C.) was a devoted student and follower...father and a Thracian mother who may have been a slave, Antisthenes was denied citizenship because of his mother's social status...
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Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...something too of the Socratic dialogues of Antisthenes (c. 445 – c. 365 b.c...Socraticus (4th cent. b.c.e.). Antisthenes certainly wrote before Plato. We have...31.10 – 14;38). Both Antisthenes and Xenophon wrote quasi –...
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Diogenes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...poverty, but it was there that he adopted Antisthenes's teachings and became the chief exponent...theoretical argument for his way of life. Antisthenes, the pupil of Socrates, was his inspiration...it was Diogenes's application of Antisthenes's principles which gained for him...
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Cynic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers founded by Antisthenes, marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure...originally from Kunosarges , the name of a gymnasium where Antisthenes taught, but was popularly taken to mean ‘doglike...
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Cynicism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...philosopher was has been often raised. Some argue that it was Antisthenes (c. 445 – 365 b.c.e.), an associate of Socrates, and others opt for Diogenes, a disciple of Antisthenes, and see Diogenes as the "founder" of Cynicism. It...
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