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Ancient Epist ING
Ancient Epist ING
Phenomenon
Sensible things
Reality
Essences
Episteme: science
Philosopher
Explanation
Parmenides
Logical Thought
(Illusion)
Being
Empedocles
Love hate
(attraction repulsion)
Things become by
merging roots
Things become by
changing seeds
dispositions
Things become by
movements of atoms
Anaxagoras
Ruler intellect (nos)
Atomists:
Democritus and
Leucippus
Chance and
action reaction laws
Pythagoreans
Numbers:
mathematical
relations as essences
Plato
God Being
Aristotle
God
Unmoved Mover
Ideas: intelligible
separated essences
Four causes: formal,
material, final, and
efficient