Pre-Socratic philosopher philosophy, known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher philosophy, known as early Greek philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher philosophy began in the 6th century BCE with the three Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher philosophy encompasses the first of the three phases of ancient Greek philosophy, which spanned around a thousand years.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher is considered the first western philosopher since he was the first to use reason, to use proof, and to generalize.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher created the word cosmos, the first word to describe the universe.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher contributed to geometry and predicted the eclipse of 585 BCE.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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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Pre-Socratic philosopher attributed the origin of the world to an element instead of a divine being.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was a member of the elite of Miletus, wealthy and a statesman.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher showed interest in many fields, including mathematics and geography.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher's answer was an attempt to explain observable changes by attributing them to a single source that transforms to various elements.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher proclaimed that the earth is not situated in another structure but lies unsupported in the middle of the universe.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was a younger contemporary and friend of Anaximander, and the two worked together on various intellectual projects.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was a well-traveled poet whose primary interests were theology and epistemology.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher famously said that if oxen, horses, or lions could draw, they would draw their gods as oxen, horses, or lions.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher moved to Croton at about age 30, where he established his school and acquired political influence.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was the first to think of the brain as the center of senses and thinking.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was the first to deduce that the earth is spherical.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher tried to explain why we think various non-existent objects exist.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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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Pre-Socratic philosopher attempted to explain both the variety and unity of the cosmos.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher explains that things, even when changing shapes, remain ontologically the same.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher thought contributed to the demythologization of the Greek popular religion.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher was the first to state that philosophy starts with Thales.
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Francis Bacon, a 16th-century philosopher known for advancing the scientific method, was probably the first philosopher of the modern era to use pre-Socratic axioms extensively in his texts.
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Pre-Socratic philosopher 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.
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