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pre socratics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pre socratic | before socrates |
| philosophy vs myth/religion | creative vs concrete |
| 4 classical elements | fire, air, water, earth |
| thales | everything is water |
| Anaximander | everything is air |
| apeiron | air can be rarified or condensed |
| rational thought or observation | Anaximander demanded explanations |
| Democritus | everything is atoms |
| deterministic universe | unjustified assumption, rational and mechanical |
| Pythagoras | everything is numbers |
| arithmomancy | math magic, math as religion |
| the monad | 1, most important number |
| beans | math cult, power connected to life and death |
| cult of numbers | teaches how numbers are magical |
| epiphenomenalism | mind is second to body |
| divine areas of mathematics | arithmetic, geometric, astronomy, and music |