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gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:philosopher
astronomer
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gptkbp:birthDate
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c. 624 BC
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Miletus
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gptkbp:deathDate
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c. 546 BC
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gptkbp:era
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gptkb:Pre-Socratic_philosophy
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Thales of Miletus
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Aristotle
gptkb:Heraclitus
gptkb:Plato
gptkb:Pythagoras
gptkb:Anaximander
gptkb:Anaximenes_of_Miletus
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Egyptian_mathematics
Babylonian astronomy
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gptkbp:knownFor
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gptkb:Thales'_theorem
one of the Seven Sages of Greece
predicting a solar eclipse
first principle: water
founder of natural philosophy
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:legacy
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first philosopher in Western tradition
credited with deductive mathematics
inspiration for later Greek philosophers
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:notableIdea
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everything is made of water
naturalistic explanations of phenomena
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:philosopher
astronomer
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gptkbp:region
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Western philosophy
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gptkbp:schoolTradition
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gptkb:Milesian_school
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gptkb:Presocratic_philosophers
gptkb:Ionia
gptkb:Thales'_theorem
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