All I see when I close my eyes are colors! Mostly it's orange, purple, green and blue...but I can't ever get rid of them to see a clear, true-color picture in my mind's eye. I never thought about it before, i just thought that everyone saw them the same way.
Empedocles is best known as the oldest exponent of the four-element theory of matterâearth, air (or aether), fire, and waterâwhich endured until the advent of modern chemistry, although with some serious modifications by later thinkers and despite strong criticisms from the ancient atomists.mpedocles presented his doctrines in the traditional poetic medium of hexameter verse, the format used by Homer and Hesiod two centuries earlier. This choice had precedents in Xenophanes (c. 570âc. 468 BCE) and Parmenides (fl. c. 490), who also used poetry to convey their ideas.
Empedocles was born, c. 490 BC, at Agrigentum (Acragas) in Sicily to a distinguished family. Very little is known about his life.His father Meto seems to have been instrumental in overthrowing the tyrant of Agrigentum, presumably Thrasydaeus in 470 BC.mpedocles is generally considered the last Greek philosopher to record his ideas in verse. Some of his work survives, more than in the case of any other Presocratic philosopher.