[DOC] [TLE] 1: Presocratic Philosophy [PAR] Mar 19, 2012 ... Are any truths absolute and unchanging, or is it all a matter of social custom ... 
The explanations offered by the first philosophers were not only .... source of all 
things, yet he criticized Thales for selecting water as the fundamental element. ... 
Unlike earth, air, fire and water, which we know through the senses,... [DOC] [TLE] Heraclitus | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [PAR] Plato indicates the source of the flux doctrine: "Heraclitus, I believe, says that ... 
came from the original stuff, such as Thales' water or Anaximenes' air. ... 
conservation of matter, at least the identity of the matter is not conserved, nor ... 
The image applies equally to physical theory: as earth changes to fire, fire 
changes to earth. [DOC] [TLE] Anaximander - Wikipedia [PAR] Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of 
Ionia (in .... Neither is it something halfway between air and water, or between air 
and fire, ... the Universe originates in the separation of opposites in the primordial 
matter. ... In his model, the Earth floats very still in the centre of the infinite, not... [DOC] [TLE] Classical element - Wikipedia [PAR] Classical elements typically refer to the pre-scientific concepts in Ancient Greece, 
of earth, water, air, fire, and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature 
and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances .... The next higher 
element, water, has no odor but can be heard, felt, seen and tasted. Next comes 
fire... [DOC] [TLE] Elemental: The Four Elements, Earth, Fire, Air, Water in Greek ... [PAR] He associated these elements with four Greek gods and goddesses - air with 
Zeus, earth with Hera, fire with Hades, and water with Nestis (believed to be 
Persephone): ... Earlier philosophers believed that the quality of matter depends 
on the ... Empedocles' philosophy was influenced not only by Pythagoras, but 
also by the... [DOC] [TLE] Precipitation - Cambridge University Press [PAR] This puzzle was not finally solved until the Victorian explorers Burton, Speke, the 
... that everything is made of continued with Heraclitus, who believed it was fire, ... 
Empedocles, however, considered fire, air, water and earth to be the ... 
Xenophanes believed that 'the sea is the source of all water, and the source of 
wind. [DOC] [TLE] Presocratic Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [PAR] Mar 10, 2007 ... Presocratic, if taken strictly as a chronological term, is not accurate, for the last 
of ... As the fragment from Heraclitus shows, the early Greek .... places the 
Milesians, explained things only in terms of their matter (Met. ... there is no 
transformation of water into a different kind of stuff (air or earth, for instance). [DOC] [TLE] Philosophy's Roots and Branches | Issue 104 | Philosophy Now [PAR] Hence the so-called 'Greek' elements  water, earth, air and fire  are all present 
... Thales believed the primordial water metamorphosed into earth, to air, to fire, ... 
end by becoming earth; and a lot of what Heraclitus said about what the world is 
... not only were gods a matter of taste and circumstances, their metaphysical,... [DOC] [TLE] Greek Philosophy - Scribd [PAR] Thales was without doubt an exceptional man, but he was not the only thinker in 
... Thales stated that the origin of all matter (arch) is water. ... Thales also 
believed that the Earth rests on water, like a barrel that swims in the sea. ..... 
Heraclitus sees a cosmic balance in the struggle of the elements, water, air, fire, 
earth. Due to... [DOC] [TLE] Cosmological Theories Through History - The Physics of the Universe [PAR] Although he believed the universe to be finite in size, he stressed that it ... air, 
earth and water, which were acted on by two forces, gravity (the tendency of ... a 
finite cosmos is surrounded

Question: Heraclitus believed that this, not earth, air, or water, was the primordial source of matter
Answer: Fire