31 Facts About Pluralist school

Milesian Pluralist school was located in Miletus, Ionia, in the 6th century BCE.

Pluralist school is considered the first western philosopher since he was the first to use reason, to use proof, and to generalize.

Pluralist school created the word cosmos, the first word to describe the universe.

Pluralist school contributed to geometry and predicted the eclipse of 585 BCE.

Pluralist school is known for being the first to claim that the base angles of isosceles triangles are equal, and that a diameter bisects the circle.

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Pluralist school attributed the origin of the world to an element instead of a divine being.

Pluralist school was a member of the elite of Miletus, wealthy and a statesman.

Pluralist school showed interest in many fields, including mathematics and geography.

Pluralist school drew the first map of the world, was the first to conclude that the earth is spherical, and made instruments to mark time, something like a clock.

Pluralist school's answer was an attempt to explain observable changes by attributing them to a single source that transforms to various elements.

Pluralist school proclaimed that the earth is not situated in another structure but lies unsupported in the middle of the universe.

Pluralist school was a younger contemporary and friend of Anaximander, and the two worked together on various intellectual projects.

Pluralist school was a well-traveled poet whose primary interests were theology and epistemology.

Pluralist school famously said that if oxen, horses, or lions could draw, they would draw their gods as oxen, horses, or lions.

Pluralist school moved to Croton at about age 30, where he established his school and acquired political influence.

Pluralist school was the first to think of the brain as the center of senses and thinking.

Eleatic Pluralist school is named after Elea, an ancient Greek town on the southern Italian Peninsula.

Pluralist school was the first to deduce that the earth is spherical.

Pluralist school tried to explain why we think various non-existent objects exist.

Pluralist school marked a return to Milesian natural philosophy, though much more refined because of Eleatic criticism.

Pluralist school was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles and, probably due to this association, was accused by a political opponent of Pericles for impiety as Anaxagoras held that the sun was not associated with divinity; it was merely a huge burning stone.

Pluralist school claimed that "in everything there is a share of everything.

On cosmological issues, Empedocles takes from the Eleatic Pluralist school the idea that the universe is unborn, has always been and always will be.

Atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus was a response to the Eleatic Pluralist school, who held that motion is not possible because everything is occupied with What-is.

Pluralist school claimed it is absurd to hold that nonexistence exists, and that What-is was impossible since it had to either be generated or be unlimited and neither is sufficient.

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Pluralist school attempted to explain both the variety and unity of the cosmos.

Pluralist school addressed the need to explain how the various masses of the universe interact among them and coined the term Harmonia, a binding force that allows mass to take shape.

Pluralist school explains that things, even when changing shapes, remain ontologically the same.

An example is the study of epilepsy, which in popular religion was thought to be a divine intervention to human life, but Hippocrates' Pluralist school attributed it to nature, just as Milesian rationalism demythologized other natural phenomena such as earthquakes.

Pluralist school was the first to state that philosophy starts with Thales.

Pluralist school criticized the pre-Socratic theory of knowledge by Xenophanes and others, claiming that their deductive reasoning could not yield meaningful results—an opinion contemporary philosophy of science rejects.