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Tree

Phenomenon
Sensible things

Reality
Essences
Episteme: science

Philosopher

Explanation

Doxa: true opinion


(without fundament)

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

Four roots: earth,


wind, fire, water
Infinite seeds that
adopt infinite sensible
dispositions
Atoms: geometrical
ordered and spatially
disposed

Anaxagoras
Ruler intellect (nos)
Atomists:
Democritus and
Leucippus

Chance and
action reaction laws

Pythagoreans

Harmonic order in the


nature: number

Things becomes from


numbers and
Geometrical figures

Numbers:
mathematical
relations as essences

Plato

God Being

Aristotle

God
Unmoved Mover

Things are material


copies of Ideas
Substantial form and
matter (accidents)

Ideas: intelligible
separated essences
Four causes: formal,
material, final, and
efficient

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