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Origins of natural philosophy
*arranging reasonings from known facts into arguments, attempting to prove or explain things less known, while refining definitions of the arguments' mediating ideas to ensure the judgments composing the arguments work together logically
*arranging reasonings from known facts into arguments, attempting to prove or explain things less known, while refining definitions of the arguments' mediating ideas to ensure the judgments composing the arguments work together logically
*testing one's arguments by applying them to further cases and comparing them against the ideas of others.
*testing one's arguments by applying them to further cases and comparing them against the ideas of others.
==Origins of natural philosophy==
Western physics began with eminent [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] pre-Socratic philosophers such as [[Thales]], [[Anaximander]], possibly [[Pythagoras]], [[Heraclitus]], [[Anaxagoras]], [[Empedocles]] and [[Philolaus]], many of whom were involved in various schools. For example, Anaximander and Thales belonged to the Milesian school. [[Plato]], briefly and [[Aristotle]] at length, in works that survived to today, continued these studies of nature.
==Natural philosophy and science==
==Natural philosophy and science==
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