"Thales of Miletus c.624 – c.546 BC was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. Aristotle reported Thales' hypothesis about the originating principle of nature and the nature of matter – that it was a single material substance: water.  According to Bertrand Russell, ""Western philosophy begins with Thales."" Thales attempted to explain natural…"
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