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Thales
Thales of Miletus
(; ,
Thales
; 624 – c. 546 BC) was a
pre-Socratic
Greek philosopher
,
mathematician
and
astronomer
from
Miletus
in
Asia Minor
, current day
Milet
in
Turkey
and one of the
Seven Sages of Greece
. Many, most notably
Aristotle
, regard him as the first philosopher in the
Greek tradition
. Aristotle reported Thales'
hypothesis
that the
originating principle
of
nature
and the nature of
matter
was a single material
substance
:
water
.
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Thales (disambiguation)
Thales
was a Greek philosopher from Miletus.
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