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- 2. His belief is that all matter was composed of four elements: water, fire, earth, and air.
- 3. Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses.
- 6. Greek philosopher known for his cosmology in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe.
- 9. Greek philosopher that founded Eleaticism.
- 12. The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
- 13. Controbitunist to all fields of philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic. Founded his own school in Athens.
- 14. one of the founders of sophism, a movement traditionally associated with philosophy that emphasizes the practical application of rhetoric toward civil and political life.
- 15. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory.
- 18. A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral skepticism and specious reasoning.
- 19. the signs of the origin and development of the universe.
- 20. Founding father of Western philosophy, examined all aspects of life and ancient Athens.
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- 1. Known as "the laughing philosopher" and was one of the two founder of Ancient atomist theory.
- 4. Sacred rituals, spirit divination, mysterious, or supernatural forces.
- 5. Greek philosopher that worked in fields that we now call geography and biology, was the first speculative astronomer.
- 7. person who supports the theories of Greek philosopher.
- 8. The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
- 10. Greek mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor.
- 11. the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
- 16. Founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy.
- 17. Father of medicine.
