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| | Greek Philosophy |
 | | With the identification of the characteristics of mythic forms of human thought, it becomes possible to identify the unique innovations of philosophy. |
 | | While Thales' views about water reflected long held mythic accounts (both Egyptian, Babylonian, and Biblical creation stories begin with water), he was immediately superseded by the multiple novel theories of Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Pythagoras, and Heraclitus, all within 80 years. |
 | | The meaning of the word "dialectic" (from which is derived "dialogue") now has drifted far from its original sense, because of special technical meanings attributed to it by philosophers like Kant, Hegel, and Marx. |
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