re us. For obviously they too speak of certain principles and causes; to go over their views, then, will be of profit to the present inquiry, for we shall either find another kind of cause, or be Casual Short Tassel 3046 more convinced of the correctness of those which we now maintain.
Of the first Valentino Shoes philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved (the substance remaining, but changing in its modifications), this they say is the element and this the principle of things, and therefore they think nothing is either generated or destroyed, since this sort of entity is always conserved, as we say Socrates neither Marian Gaborik Jersey comes to be absolutely when he comes to be beautiful or musical, nor ceases to be when loses these characteristics, because the substratum, Socrates himself remains. just so they say nothing else comes to be or ceases to be; for there must be some entity-either one or more than one-from which all other things come to be, it being conserved.
Yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principles. Thales, the founder of this type of philosophy, says the principle is water (for which reason he declared that the earth rests on water), getting the notion perhaps from seeing that the nutriment of all things is moist, and that heat itself is generated from the moist and kept alive by it (and that from which they come to be is a principle of Casual Short Tassel 3046 all things). He got his notion from this fact, and from the fact that the seeds of all things have a moist nature, and that water is the origin of the nature of moist things.
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; Moschino Clothing for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears. It may perhaps be uncertain whether this opinion about nature is primitive and ancient, but Thales at any rate is said to have declared himself thus about the first cause. Hippo no one would think fit to include among these Matthew Tkachuk Jersey thinkers, because of the paltriness of his Salomon XT Hornet Kengät thought.
Anaximenes and Diogenes make air prior to water, and the most primary of the simple bodies, while Hippasus of Metapontium and Heraclitus Joe Nieuwendyk Jersey of Ephesus say this of fire, and Empedocles says it of the four elements (adding a fourth-earth-to Larry Murphy Jersey those which have been named); for these, he says, always remain and do not come to be, except that they come to be more or fewer, being aggregated into one Borje Salming Jersey and segregated out of one.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, who, though older than Empedocles, was later in Trevor Lewis Jersey his philosophical activity, says the principles are infinite in number; for he says almost all the things that are made of parts like Carey Price Jersey themselves, in the manner of water links:
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