emselves, but it seems preposterous for him to say that we evolved fromwater. Living things not only contain water but contain substances. The only logicalconclusion that Sophie found was that water turns into ice, and ice can go back to flowingwater again. Another philosopher that was discussed along with Thalas wasAnaximander. Anaximander held that all things eventually return to the element fromwhich they originated. When a plant dies it desinigrates into the ground and the ground iswhere the plant originated from, so I can see where Anaximender could propose that. But human beings did not originate from the ground, unless he did have religious beliefs, such that human evolved from dirt. So when he/she dies they go back to where theyoriginated, so I could see where that concept might come into place.Although Anaximenes had a different concept. He held the concept that air is theprimary element to which everything else can be reduced. To explain how solid objectsare formed from air, he introduced the notions of condensation and rarefaction. Theseprocesses, he claimed, make air, in itself invisible, visible as water, fire, and solidmatter. He thought that air becomes warmer and turns into fire when it rarefied and that itturns colder and turns solid when condensed. How I see it his attempt was to discover theultimate nature of reality.On the other hand, Sophie learned about Parmenidas’s philosophy. Parmendias’sphilosophy demonstrated the reality of the absolute being, the nonexistence of whichParmenidas declared to be inconceivable, but the nature of which, he admitted to beequally inconceivable, as it is dissociated from every limitation under which human beingsthink. How I understand it, he held the fact that reality, is not known to the senses but itis to be found only in reason. He plainly says that beings cannot rise from nonbeing, andthat being neither rises nor passes away. The ph...
