What did Thales consider to be the Urstoff of all things?

What was the Urstoff for other pre-socratics?

He considered "WATER" to be the origin of all things.

Thales was one first, which took distance from the anthropomorphic conception of the world of the Homer (and thus the entire Greek world at that time) and which origin of the life at an element fastened. This element, which was always differently seen by the most diverse important Vorsokratikern, had however always the characteristic in all things available, dissimilarly, invisibly, to be pervasive and. Some went already so far that they said this element were indivisible: atomov.

Ps: The text above is a translated version of a German site.

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