... the three men who started what is now known as philosophy in Miletus. Their main focus was to understand the nature of the things around them. The first philosophers thought that,the principles in the form of matter were the only principle of all things?. They held that the substance of all things remained constant and only the properties changed from when it was created to when it is destroyed. The most important contribution of the ... , theseeds of everything have a moist nature?, and moisture is the result of water (Aristotle, Metaphysics). The importance lies not in the understanding...

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