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- Seen as 1st philosopher in western philosophy
- Everything is water
- Accurately predicted a solar eclipse
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- Thinking based on observation and reason
- Wold processes are cyclical (THE CIRCLE OF LIFEEE)
- 4 primary qualities: hot, cold, wet, dry
- Life arose from mud and slime
- First animals were fish-like; humans evolved from those
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- Thinking based on mathematics
- Leader of a brotherhood
- Immortality of soul and reincarnations
- Human goal is to shake of body and return to universe
- Don't eat other animals!
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- Don't trust your senses
- You can't step in the same river twice
- Look to your mind to figure stuff out
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- Reality is a single motionless unchanging substance; movement is impossible
- Confuses 2 senses of the verb "to be"
- What you see is an illusion
- Only the mind can discover what is real (his importance for subsequent Greek philosophy)
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- Everything is made of 4 elements: earth, water, air, fire
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- "Atomoi" means unsplittable
- First one to come up with idea of atoms
- Different shapes of atoms --> how they act and interact
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