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Nausiphanes , a native of Teos
Teos

Teos or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus, colonized by Orchomenus Minyans, Ionians, and Boeotians....
, lived c. 325 BC, was attached to the philosophy of Democritus
Democritus

Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera in the north of Greece. He was the most prolific, and ultimately the most influential, of the pre-Socratic philosophers; his atomic theory may be regarded as the culmination of early Greek thought....
, and was a pupil of Pyrrho
Pyrrho

Pyrrho , a Greek philosopher of classical antiquity, is credited as being the first Skeptic philosopher, and the inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC....
. He had a large number of pupils, and was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus
Epicurus

Epicurus was an Greek philosophy and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works....
 was at one time one of his hearers, but was unsatisfied with him, and, apparently, abused him in his writings. He also argued that the study of natural philosophy (physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
) was the best foundation for studying rhetoric or politics.






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Nausiphanes , a native of Teos
Teos

Teos or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus, colonized by Orchomenus Minyans, Ionians, and Boeotians....
, lived c. 325 BC, was attached to the philosophy of Democritus
Democritus

Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera in the north of Greece. He was the most prolific, and ultimately the most influential, of the pre-Socratic philosophers; his atomic theory may be regarded as the culmination of early Greek thought....
, and was a pupil of Pyrrho
Pyrrho

Pyrrho , a Greek philosopher of classical antiquity, is credited as being the first Skeptic philosopher, and the inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC....
. He had a large number of pupils, and was particularly famous as a rhetorician. Epicurus
Epicurus

Epicurus was an Greek philosophy and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works....
 was at one time one of his hearers, but was unsatisfied with him, and, apparently, abused him in his writings. He also argued that the study of natural philosophy (physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
) was the best foundation for studying rhetoric or politics. There is a polemic in Philodemus
Philodemus

Philodemus of Gadara was an Epicurean philosopher and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum....
' On Rhetoric against Nausiphanes' view that the natural philosopher is the best orator. Epicurus may also have derived his three criteria of truth in his Canon from the Tripod of Nausiphanes.