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{ Monday, April 7, 2008 }

Presocratic Philosophy

Thales, a Presocratic philosopher, thought that, contrary to appearances and common sense, the world was composed of water, while Heraclitus thought it was composed of fire.

Gleaned from my Intellectual Devotional.

LINK | 10:12 PM | TB

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  { COMMENTS }

Awesome that you're reading that. We do it too, most mornings. I haven't posted it to my conquered books set on Flickr yet, cause I haven't finished it :)

Eric Rodenbeck | April 8, 2008 11:32 AM

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In a way, they were both right.

Amelia | April 8, 2008 12:12 PM

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Ah, the beginnings of metaphysics.

craig | April 8, 2008 3:20 PM

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