Thales of Miletus

Học thuật
Thân thiện
Definition

Proper noun: - A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and astronomer: Thales of Miletus was an ancient Greek thinker from the city of Miletus. He is historically noted for predicting a solar eclipse in 585 BC. Aristotle credited him as a founder of physical science for his theory that water is the fundamental substance (the arche) from which all things originate.

Usage
  • Thales of Miletus is considered one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
  • The philosophical approach of Thales of Miletus sought natural, rather than mythological, explanations for the world.
  • In many histories of science, Thales of Miletus marks the beginning of Western philosophy.
Advanced Usage
  • "The Milesian school": Refers to the early pre-Socratic philosophers from Miletus, with Thales of Miletus as its founding figure.
  • "Thales' theorem": In geometry, a theorem attributed to Thales of Miletus states that if A, B, and C are points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter, then the angle ∠ABC is a right angle.
Variants and Related Words
  • Milesian (adj): Pertaining to Miletus or its philosophers.
  • Pre-Socratic (adj/n): Referring to the Greek philosophers who lived before Socrates, including Thales of Miletus.
Synonyms
  • The First Philosopher (in the Western tradition).
  • The Founder of Natural Philosophy.
Related Phrases and Concepts
  • "Everything is water": The fundamental doctrine attributed to Thales of Miletus.
  • "The arche": A Greek term for the fundamental principle or first cause of all things, which Thales of Miletus identified as water.
Noun
  1. a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)

Từ đồng nghĩa