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As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates "called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil."
Chpt 7

established = placed
A few decades after the death of Jesus, Christian congregations were already established in all the important Greek and Roman cities—in Athens, in Rome, in Alexandria, in Ephesos, and in Corinth.
Chpt 14

established = created
The "Old Covenant" between God and Israel had been replaced by the "New Covenant" which Jesus had established between God and mankind.
Chpt 14 *

established = set in place
Moreover, in the course of the Middle Ages the various nation-states established themselves, with cities and citizens, folk music and folktales.
Chpt 15

established = settled
So we have established that we cannot use reason as a yardstick for how we ought to act.†
Chpt 21 *

established = proven or shown
But what we do know enables us to establish that the earliest Greek philosophers' project concerned the question of a basic constituent substance and the changes in nature.†
Chpt 4
For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.†
Chpt 5
Today we can establish that Democritus' atom theory was more or less correct.†
Chpt 5
Socrates felt that it was necessary to establish a solid foundation for our knowledge.†
Chpt 7
Since then, many thousands of "academies" have been established all over the world†
Chpt 9
Briefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is eternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what "flows," on the other.†
Chpt 9
If I first establish that "all living creatures are mortal" (first premise), and then establish that "Hermes is a living creature" (second premise), I can then elegantly conclude that "Hermes is mortal."†
Chpt 11
If I first establish that "all living creatures are mortal" (first premise), and then establish that "Hermes is a living creature" (second premise), I can then elegantly conclude that "Hermes is mortal."†
Chpt 11
This meant establishing a clear division between the soul and the body.†
Chpt 12
All in all, we can establish that sight was the most important of the senses for Indo-Europeans.†
Chpt 14
So here was the situation: a great many people at the time of Jesus were waiting for a Messiah who would reestablish the Kingdom of God with a great flourish of trumpets (in other words, with fire and sword).†
Chpt 14

reestablish = restore

standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in reestablish means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
This is already established by Paul: "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain."†
Chpt 14
Therefore the first Creed was established, summing up the central Christian "dogmas" or tenets.†
Chpt 14
It happened because he criticized the established religion.†
Chpt 19
So shall we establish here and now that Hilde has an ingenious father?†
Chpt 19
Hume begins by establishing that man has two different types of perceptions, namely impressions and ideas.†
Chpt 21
This law establishes that everything that happens must have a cause.†
Chpt 21
But the Enlightenment philosophers wanted to establish certain rights that everybody was entitled to simply by being born.†
Chpt 23
The French Revolution in 1787 established a number of rights for all 'citizens.'†
Chpt 23
But Kant went further than simply to establish that thes weighty questions should be left to the faith of the individual.†
Chpt 24
Many of the Romantics saw themselves as Kant's successors, since Kant had established that there was a limit to what we can know of 'das Ding an sich.'†
Chpt 25
He was particularly incensed by the vapidness of the established Danish Lutheran Church.†
Chpt 27
Yes and no. Today, economists can establish that Marx was mistaken on a number of vital issues, not least his analysis of the crises of capitalism.†
Chpt 28
Let us first establish that all life on earth—both animal and vegetable—is constructed of exactly the same substances.†
Chpt 29
But in order that the disturbance may not be repeated, in case the man who has just been thrown out attempts to force his way back into the room, the gentlemen who have executed my suggestion take their chairs to the door and establish themselves there as a resistance, to keep up the repression.†
Chpt 30

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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone)
create, start, or set in [a] place
(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need)
show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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