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020			_a9780192840943 (pbk.)
020			_a0192840940 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)54425104
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050	0	0	_aB187.5 _b.O82 2004
082	0	0	_a182 _222
092			_a182 OSBORNE
100	1		_aOsborne, Catherine.
245	1	0	_aPresocratic philosophy : _ba very short introduction / _cCatherine Osborne.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2004.
300			_a144 p. : _bill., map ; _c18 cm.
490	1		_aVery short introductions.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aLost words, forgotten worlds -- Puzzles about first principles -- Zeno's tortoise -- Reality and appearance : more adventures in metaphysics -- Heraclitus -- Pythagoras and other mysteries -- Spin doctors of the 5th century.
520			_a"Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making, to support stories that Western philosophers and historians of philosophy like to tell about their past. This book covers the invention of western philosophy: introducing to us the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe."
650		0	_aPre-Socratic philosophers.
830		0	_aVery short introductions.
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