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Anaximenes of Miletus (circa 586–526 BCE), the third and youngest of the early Milesian philosophers, is a pivotal figure in the development of pre-Socratic natural philosophy.

Building upon the inquiries of his predecessors, Thales and Anaximander, Anaximenes sought to refine the search for the arche (the primary principle or substance of all things) by proposing air as the fundamental substance underlying all existence.

His work represents an important stage in the evolution of Greek thought, as it combines empirical observation with a systematic explanation of natural phenomena, moving toward a more refined understanding of the processes governing the cosmos.

Anaximenes of Miletus as imaginatively depicted, wearing a tainia, in a 16th-century engraving from Girolamo Olgiati.

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