Classification: Natural Philosophy, Pre-Socratics
Meaning: “They were mainly concerned with the natural world and its processes.”
Thales: believed that the source of all things was water.
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Anaximander: believed that our world was only one of many worlds that evolve and dissolve in “the boundless.”
Anaximenes: believed that the source of all things was air/vapor.
Parmenides: everything that exists has always existed
Heraclitus: constant change is the most basic characteristic of nature
Empedocles: believed that the source of all nature was four “roots”—earth, air, fire, and water—that combine and separate to form new substances
Anaxagoras: nature is made of an infinite number of particles invisible to the eye—“seeds”—and there is something of everything in each seed
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