Presocratics

That is implied in the common term 'Presocratics' generally applied to his predecessors, though the ordinary textbooks are by no means clear as to the grounds for assigning this pre-eminent position to

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But the most obvious dialetheists since the Presocratics and before the 20th century are Hegel and his successors in dialectics, such as Marx and Engels

Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008

Philolaus makes a significant advance over earlier Presocratics by making a firm distinction between thinking and perception.

Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

Aristotle refers to the Presocratics as the physiologoi, “writers on nature,” and it is precisely nature (physis) that is the first word of Philolaus 'book.

Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

Socrates complains that the Presocratics had mistakenly looked to material causes.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

He has been seen as a metaphysical monist (of one stripe or another) who so challenged the naïve cosmological theories of his predecessors that his major successors among the Presocratics were all driven to develop more sophisticated physical theories in response to his arguments.

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

The standard collection of the fragments of the Presocratics and sophists, together with testimonia pertaining to their lives and thought, remains:

Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

In Western Philosophy, a number of the Presocratics endorsed dialetheism.

Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008

Repr. in Vlastos's Studies in Greek Philosophy, vol. 1: The Presocratics, ed.

Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

One aim of the Presocratics, as Socrates narrates in the Phaedo (95a4ff), is to find a single explanation, or a single kind of explanation, to save the phenomena.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008