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'''Presocratic Philosophers''' were the first [[Greek philosophers]] of the Western tradition. Some of this philosophers were the Milesian [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Anaximander]] of Miletus and [[Anaximenes of Miletus]], Xenophanes of Colophon and [[Heraclitus]] of Ephesus, [[Parmenides]] of Elea, his pupil [[Zeno]] of Elea, [[Pythagoras]] of Samos, the Eliastics Melissus, the Pluralists [[Anaxagoras]] of Clazomenae and [[Empedocles]] of Acragas, the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus of Abdera and the Sophists Diogenes of Apollonia. [[Aristotle]] refers to them as ''Investigators of Nature'' because of their interest on questions of physics (as the material principle).

'''Presocratic philosophers''' (also written as '''pre-Socratic philosophers''' and collectively refered to as '''Presocratics''' or '''pre-Socratics''') were the first [[Greek philosophers]] of the Western tradition, considered to be the first empirical [[Scientist|scientists]]<ref>Barnes, Jonathan. The Presocratic philosophers. 2nd rev. ed. London; New York, NY : Routledge, 1982. ISBN 0-203-00737-9, p. 3.</ref><ref>Curd, Patricia. [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/presocratics/ Presocratic Philosophy] [online]. In Zalta, Edward N. (Ed.). ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''. Summer 2019 ed., 2016-04-04 (retrieved 2019-08-23)</ref>.

 

Some of this philosophers were the Milesian [[Thales]] of Miletus, [[Anaximander]] of Miletus and [[Anaximenes of Miletus]], Xenophanes of Colophon and [[Heraclitus]] of Ephesus, [[Parmenides]] of Elea, his pupil [[Zeno]] of Elea, [[Pythagoras]] of Samos, the Eliastics Melissus, the Pluralists [[Anaxagoras]] of Clazomenae and [[Empedocles]] of Acragas, the Atomists Leucippus and Democritus of Abdera and the Sophists Diogenes of Apollonia. [[Aristotle]] refers to them as ''Investigators of Nature'' because of their interest on questions of physics (as the material principle).

:: Presocratic ''interests extended to religious and ethical thought, the nature of understanding, mathematics, meteorology, the nature of explanation, and the roles of mechanism, matter, form, and structure in the world. Almost all the Presocratics seemed to have something to say about embryology, and fragments of Diogenes and Empedocles show a keen interest in the structures of the body; the overlap between ancient [[philosophy]] and ancient medicine is of growing interest to scholars of early Greek thought'' <ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/ Presocratic Philosophy]</ref>

:: Presocratic ''interests extended to religious and ethical thought, the nature of understanding, mathematics, meteorology, the nature of explanation, and the roles of mechanism, matter, form, and structure in the world. Almost all the Presocratics seemed to have something to say about embryology, and fragments of Diogenes and Empedocles show a keen interest in the structures of the body; the overlap between ancient [[philosophy]] and ancient medicine is of growing interest to scholars of early Greek thought'' <ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/ Presocratic Philosophy]</ref>