Repeat after me: This is water. This is water.

nigger

The reason why I consider most of the presocratic philosophers as irrelevant is because the sources we have are flawed and indirect. We can only speculate and guess what Thales actually meant by his assertion that water is the basis (arche) of everything: is everything made of water (e.g. through a process of vaporization, condensation, etc) or is water the initial element that gave rise to the development of the rest?

It's also completely possible that Thales's views were distorted or misinterpreted by Aristotle and Plato.

>>9520899
Or, you know, they're irrelevant because philosophical physics are obsolete, and their scope of metaphysics only broad enough to barely scratch what would today be considered empirically unfalsifiable.

>>9520956
>believing that the value of presocratic philosophers lies in their assertions about physics

Yeah, you completely missed the point. You better start over with the Greeks, and this time actually read (about) them.

>>9520851

I kek'd.

>>9521105
Oh no, I understand the role that the pre-Socratics had in formalizing early Philosophical thought.
Doesn't make them any less irrelevant.

>>9522709
>formalizing early Philosophical thought
>irrelevant

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This fire is out of control
I'm gonna burn this polis
Burn this polis (Yeah)

This fire is out of control
And I burn
Oh how I burn for you...

>>9520897
hey, me again

sorry for making this post earlier

Why you fags still replying to this shitpost?

>>9524170
It's alright mate, we all make bad calls at times

>>9522709
What about Parmenide's proto monism.