NL East: Thales was right! (sort of)

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Thales of Miletus was a remarkable chap. He is often credited as the first Greek philosopher, breaking with traditional mythological thought to explain the world’s phenomena with theories involving the physical, natural world. His great philosophical breakthrough? Everything in existence is composed of a single, irreducible substance (interesting, go on), and that substance is water (d’oh!).

The reason Thales is so important isn’t because his conclusion was correct; it’s because his process was sound. That’s the beginning of science, folks. Reasoned thinking. The end of superstition (well, not really: turns out we still love us some ghosts and monsters). But mark well, dear reader: this emphasis on process over...

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