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When was Thales born? |
685 B.C. |
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Where was Thales born? |
Miletus |
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What were the 4 beliefs Thales held to be true |
1.) Everything derives and is consisted of Water. 2.) Everything rests on water. 3.) Everything is "full of gods." 4.) The Soul produces Motion. |
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Why did Thales believe all things come from and will return to water? |
Thales observed and used Biology for his reasoning. 1.) All life depends on water.
2.) Seeds being the spurce of most life are themselves moist
3.) Sun and Moon are effected by water.
4.) Observes that water has multiple states of matter. Solid, liquid, gas. All things are variations of water. |
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What made Thales' idea of water being the origin/source original? |
Thales believes that this water is a natural phenomenon. Not created or gods. |
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Why does Thales believe that the World rests on water? |
Thales believed that the world rests of water because it was a common mythological belief. |
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What is material monism? |
Material- Something physical Monism- Only 1 such thing that all things derive from |
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Thales says that "The world is full of gods." He means... |
Not supernatural gods but identified the water itself as being divine only because all things derive from it, therefore all things contain this divine element. |
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The Soul produces motion meaning that... |
Being alive simply means to have some sort of divinity, according to Thales, therefore all things must be ensouled since all things are divine in the sense that everything has the divine element of water which is the origin. |
