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Pre-Socratic philosophers (pre-Socrates) are often very hard to pin down, and it is sometimes very difficult to determine the actual line of argument they used in supporting their particular views. While most of these thinkers produced significant texts, none of these texts have survived in complete form. All we have are quotations by later philosophers, historians, and the occasional textual fragment. The pre-Socratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations. They asked: Where does everything come from? Nearly all of the various cosmologies proposed by the early Greek philosophers are demonstrably false. Later philosophers rejected the answers they provided, but continued to place importance on their questions. List of Philosophers This list includes several men, particularly the Seven Sages, who appear to have been practical politicians and sources of epigrammatic wisdom, rather than speculative thinkers or philosophers in the modern sense. Periander (625-585 BC) Links D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's History of the Presocratic Philosophers translated by H. Evan Runner [1] (http://www.freewebs.com/presocratics/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
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