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Xenocrates of Chalcedon, 396 BC -314 BC. Ancient Greek thinker, student of Plato and scholarch of the Academy who opposed the teachings of Aristotle. He also contended that numbers and the Platonic forms are of the same kind.

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• Life of Xenocrates

  http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlxenocrates.htm
  Section from the Lives of the Philosophers, as compiled by Diogenes Laertius and translated by C.D. Yonge.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Xenocrates of Chalcedon

  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Xenocrates.html
  Biography, bibliography and list of related topics.

• Wikipedia: Xenocrates

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocrates
  Entry drawn from the 1911 Britannica.

• Xenocrates

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xenocrates/
  A detailed article by Russell Dancy on this thinker's life and teachings. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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