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Early Greek Philosophy, The Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes - #509

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What Does Thales Mean?

In the ancient world, if you call, you could call someone a thales the way we would call somebody in einstein. Thell say t abouto, the chaldeans we call tem in detroit. But sorry, not go ahead. Are you d you ono, no, do. Ok. I mean, i know there's o, there's, there's never enough a, never enough time to cover everything. Im i,. You know, we've discussed mythology in the past. And kind of even just like discussing actual historical figures, and that some one like homer is not necessarily one person, and maybe thales's accredited discoveries were not even necessarily his own

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