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Pre-Socratic Philosophers (Milesians (Anaximander: The Boundless (In the…

- - - - Anthropomorphism is the combination of a human and an animal of another species.
      - Pantheism is a doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
    - - Reason about the words. To say of what is that it is, can only be to say that it exists.
    - - Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion.
  - - - Empedocles of Acragas formulated a philosophical program in hexameter verse that pioneered the influential four-part theory of roots (air, water, earth, and fire) along with two active principles of Love and Strife, which influenced later philosophy, medicine, mysticism, cosmology, and religion.
    - - To understand how it is possible for there to be a portion of everything in everything, it is necessary to develop Anaxagoras’ contention that stuff is infinitely divisible.
- - - - Leucippus is named by most sources as the originator of the theory that the universe consists of two different elements, which he called ‘the full’ or ‘solid,’ and ‘the empty’ or ‘void’. Both the void and the solid atoms within it are thought to be infinite, and between them to constitute the elements of everything. Because little is known of Leucippus' views and his specific contributions to atomist theory
    - - The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms, there lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible, and have always been and always will be in motion; that there is an infinite number of atoms and of kinds of atoms, which differ in shape and size
  - - - relativism is the idea that what is good, bad, true, and false is relative to a particular framework.
    - - nothing exists or if something exists, it cannot be known, or if something does exist and can be known, it cannot be communicated.