Ancient Greek philosopher from Miletus who posited air as the primary substance, arguing that all things arise through condensation and rarefaction of air.
Returns to a specific element (air) but introduces a mechanism: condensation produces water, earth, stone; rarefaction produces fire. The soul, which holds us together, is air — applying cosmological principles to psychology.
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